A Year On The Field
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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...

Year On The Field “Wheat Year” Completion

The Year On The Field project looks back on a successful first crop year from preparation to processing. We learned about diverse...

Early 20th century wheat processing in Lorsch (Germany)

In addition to medieval cultivation methods, the Lauresham Open-Air Laboratory (Germany) also explored agricultural technologies and...

The wheat cultivation cycle at the Lauresham Open-Air Lab (Germany) - a "video diary"

The Lauresham Open-Air Laboratory is focusing on educating the public about the Early Middle Ages and is at the same time a research...

"To take on responsibility in times of crisis" A thought from the field

As part of the experiments on medieval agriculture and the `A Year On The Field" project, also food is produced at the Lauresham Open-Air...

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...

Let's plant the seeds early!

"A Thought From The Field" on the question of introducing children to the topics of food production and textiles When a few weeks ago the...

"Zoom-in" – January on the wheat field at the Open-Air Laboratory Lauresham (Germany)

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

The diversity of common wheat within 19th century grain cultivation

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

A Year on the Field