A Year On The Field
Project Blog

Sowing flax in Austria by "Das Halbe Team"

In March, we ploughed a meadow into a field of arable land with a tractor on our estate management Fridau, Obergrafendorf/Lower Austria....

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...

Sowing rituals: with the support from above

The flax industry has a rich history and traditions that date back to ancient times. Part of these traditions are the historical sowing...

Flax to linen at the Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation

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

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...

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...

Equipment in focus: the Bickford & Huffman Grain Drill (ca. 1890), The Henry Ford (USA)

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

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...

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...

Wheat sowing at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky (USA)

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

Wheat sowing at Carter Historic Farm (Ohio, USA)

The Carter Historic Farm is a Great Depression-era living history farm in Bowling Green, Ohio. They raise livestock and heirloom grains...

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...

Of Ponies, a historic castle and a small wheat field. Some personal thoughts from Carol Streefkerk

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...

A Year on the field in Irish and Welsh medieval testimony

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