A Year On The Field
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Our grower Auenhof Pabstthum and their start into the potato year

The Auenhof Pabstthum is a certified organic farm according to the EU directive and is located about 70 kilometres northwest of Berlin...

Start of the potato year!

The A Year On The Field project kicks off this week with the start of reporting on the big potato year. Over the next few months...

Looking back at the last Flax Year - Experiences from the Lauresham Open-Air Laboratory (Germany)

The Open-Air Laboratory Lauresham is an archaeological open-air museum which, among other things, deals with the education and research...

Wheat - a photo series of Colonial Williamsburg (USA)

Although wheat was not grown this year at Colonial Williamsburg, this series of captioned photos over the previous years can show you the...

The harvest by painters

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

Looking back - a wheat cultivation cycle at Sterling College (Wendell Berry Farming Program, USA)

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...

Beehive Art in Slovenia - an unexpected insight in 19th century agricultural practice

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

Wheat sowing at Barrington Plantation State Historic Site (Texas, USA)

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

Sowing wheat in the surroundings of the Open-Air Laboratory Lauresham, Germany (#WirinLorsch)

In October 2021, a field was sown with the baking wheat variety ´Avian´ in the area surrounding the Lauresham Open-Air Laboratory as part...

Wheat cultivation in the Panna district of Madhya Pradesh: presentation of an indigenous plough type

Malyaj Shrivastava, Contributor for the A Year On the Field project, travelled to the Panna district of Madhya Pradesh (India) last...

Soil preparation at the Wendell Berry Farming Program, Kentucky (USA)

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

Soil Preparation at Barrington Plantation State Historic Site (Texas, USA)

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

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