A Year On The Field
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Flax to Linen in Vancouver, Canada - Kwantlen Polytechnic University and EartHand Gleaners

The "A Year On The Field" project welcomes a new grower - the partnership of the Kwantlen Polytechnic University and EartHand Gleaners...

Continuing Traditions One Square Metre at a Time

For over two thousand years, Finns have been familiar with flax cultivation. Many traditions throughout the year were closely related to...

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...

Grain Harvesting Technology at The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan, USA

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

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...

Baking the past – the Iron Age bread buns from Niederkaina

The Archäotechnisches Zentrum Welzow e.V. contributes to the Year On The Field with an experimental project about Early Iron Age food,...

Niederkaina, an Overview of the Burials with Food Remains made of or containing Wheat

The Archäotechnisches Zentrum Welzow e.V. contributes to the Year On The Field with an experimental project about Early Iron Age food,...

"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...

A weedy window on medieval wheat farming

Abstract We have exceedingly little historical evidence for crop husbandry practices in Anglo-Saxon and medieval England, prior to the...

Official Announcement: Flax is the new 'Year On the Field' crop. Call for participants!

Common Flax (Linum usitatissimum) is a very important field crop worldwide and not only provides food (seeds and oil), but also is the...

Wheat breeding - a contested practice

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

Wheat in early medieval England: an archaeological view

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

"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...

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