The Open-Air Laboratory Lauresham is an archaeological open-air museum which, among other things, deals with the education and research...

In the Middle Ages, textile plants such as flax and hemp provided not only comestibles for humans and animals, most especially in the...

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

The picture shows an uncharred flax seed found under waterlogged conditions in Ploča Mičov Grad at Lake Ohrid in North Macedonia.

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

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

Benjamin Ulmann. Entering sheep in the mobile pen for manuring the land. Photo: Georges Carantino The harvest, a moment of strong...

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 highlight the crop of the year, the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum is growing three cultivars of red wheat in a planter as part of...

Genesee Country Village and Museum in New York State is a 19th century living history farm and one of our growers within the Year On The...

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...

We have already reported in one of our previous blogposts about the wheat cultivation of Denis Adam and his family and today we want to...

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

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...

On a cloudy Oct 10th 2021, the staff at Barrington Plantation State Historic Site (focusing on the American South in the 1840-50s; see...

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

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

The Year On The Field project is more than a simple collaboration and research project. It is also about experiences, impressions and...

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