Mixed grasses on a meadow: brome and fescue. Copyright: Lauren Muney. Imagine yourself as a farmer before the invention of tractors and...

At the 1885 Firestone Farm, two varieties of heirloom potatoes are grown each year. They are Early Ohio, an all-purpose potato, and...

When the expression "potato – our second bread" became an idiom in a language of people who had valued rye bread for a thousand years –...

Exchange Place Living History Farm is located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Northeast Tennessee. Once a robust,...

On the 6th of April so approximately two weeks after planting the potatoes, the team from Auenhof Pabstthum began to harrow the ridges...

Several contributions to pre-famine Irish economic history have drawn attention to the apparent contrast between the abject poverty of the

Along with their friend Daniel Linden, Frank Kelleners and his son Maximilian run a small self-sufficient farm with horses. The farm is...

The potato has played a very important role in Sweden over the last two centuries. Initially, they were used as an emergency food and for...

Hackles and other flax processing equipment remind us of the constant labor needed to turn an agricultural crop – flax – into raw...

Background The Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation (CPP) is a living history museum interpreting the lives of English colonists living in...

Museum collections contain material culture documenting grain harvesting tools and equipment. The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, USA,...

Lazy days of summer start for some farmers only after they finish the most stressful time of their year – grain harvest. Wheat ripeness...

Benjamin Ulmann. Entering sheep in the mobile pen for manuring the land. Photo: Georges Carantino The harvest, a moment of strong...

As our wheat crop ripens through to the flint stage, it is time to sharpen our sickles and prepare for the harvest. Most (nearly all) of...

To conclude our coverage of wheat sowing, we would like to present a very special exhibit from the Slovene Ethnographic Museum (SEM) that...

As an official grower with the “A Year on the Field” project, staff at the Firestone Farm in Greenfield Village (The Henry Ford, Dearborn...

On a cloudy Oct 10th 2021, the staff at Barrington Plantation State Historic Site (focusing on the American South in the 1840-50s; see...

Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, is a landmark destination that shares 3,000 acres (1214 hectares) of discovery...

Growing grain and breeding grain were for a long time inseparable activities. Until the end of the 19th century, grain producers were...

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