First, a bit of background on the farm's potato production, now entering its 40th year:   "Our first crop was in 1985 just a year after...

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

The Shiloh Museum of Ozark History completed the harvest of their potato crop at the end of June. A total of 11.8 pounds of potatoes was...

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

Front view of the museum. Since 1968 the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History has been telling the history of the Arkansas Ozarks by...

Hedge Rose Farm is located in the intermountain west, high desert area of Oregon. They're a small, primarily horse-powered market farm...

As soon as the weather conditions permitted, tillage work began on the potato field at our grower Howell Farm

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...

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

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

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

We are happy to share Corinne Gordons report on wheat processing at Carter Historic Farm as part of our last posting regarding our wheat...

As reported in detail in one of the previous blog-posts, the wheat at Howell Living History Farm was harvested using both historic and...

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

The harvest of the 2022 wheat crop at Howell Living History Farm began on June 25th as part of a Saturday event. Normally, three horses...

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...

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...

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