My name is Carol Streefkerk and I was born in the Netherlands. As a child always busy with my pony, the logical consequence was an...

The 3-acre field is located within the farm's 45 tillable acres.The 130-acre historic farm and surrounding Pleasant Valley Rural Historic...

A very personal „Thought from the field“ from Claus Kropp, project coordinator of "The Year On The Field" project, in the light of the...

Abstract What can we learn about cereal farming in early medieval England? While the subject benefits from the emergence a rich written...

In Henry County, Kentucky, the Wendell Berry Farming Program of Sterling College offers a farming curriculum focused on ecological...

I am writing from the Highlands of Scotland, where, unlike oats and barley, owing to the environment, climate, and local farming...

A welcome, winter blast gave us historical farmers in New Jersey, USA, a bit of help this past Saturday, by covering our field of winter...

Focusing on mid 19th century Texas (USA), Barrington Plantation is a living history farm complete with period costumed interpreters using...

In the overview recently published on this website, the aim was to illustrate the different weather conditions in January in the growing...

Most of our growers have already sown their wheat last autumn. Now in January, the fields are in a very different state and in the...

After looking at an early medieval context in relation to soil preparation last week, today's coverage is about jumping into the 21st...

After dealing with wheat in general and seeds in particular, we would like to present to you for the next six weeks in our blog...

The first months of the project are now behind us and we have the opportunity to provide a short interim report. One focus of the project...

The collection of the Lauresham Open-Air laboratory includes a "Handbuch des Getreideanbaus" published by Friedrich Körnicke and Hugo...

Last Monday, Claus Kropp gave a first introductory lecture on our project at the general assembly of AIMA (International Association of...

A Year On The Field is not just about the big picture, but also about little anecdotes and wheat-stories. We were particularly pleased...

Our diets have changed since the development of modern agriculture. Around 10,000 years ago humans began cultivating wheat and other...

INTRODUCTION From 1990 to the end of 1996, I had the honour to be Curator at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton, West Sussex...

Part 1: Seed, Sowing and a Dash of Soil, in a Food Systems Context Abstract Medieval testimony can show us agricultural cycles for grains...

One of the key elements of our `A Year On The Field' is to document and preserve skills to cultivate and process wheat. We imagine Year...