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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...
Nov 7, 2022


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,...
Sep 19, 2022


Equipment in focus: A 1930s McCormick Deering Type E-M-4 grain binder at Carter Historic Farm (USA)
In 2020, the Carter Historic Farm planted our first field crops, buckwheat and corn. That summer, just in time for our first harvest, we...
Jul 13, 2022

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,...
Jul 7, 2022


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...
Jun 15, 2022


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...
Jun 8, 2022


"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...
May 25, 2022


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...
Apr 28, 2022

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...
Mar 23, 2022


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...
Feb 23, 2022


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...
Dec 15, 2021
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