A Year On The Field
Project Blog

Feb 12

Potato report by Howell Living History Farm (Mercer County, NJ, USA)

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...

Dec 10, 2022

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

Nov 3, 2022

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...

Mar 9, 2022

The 3-acre field is located within the farm's 45 tillable acres.The 130-acre historic farm and surrounding Pleasant Valley Rural Historic...

Feb 2, 2022

A welcome, winter blast gave us historical farmers in New Jersey, USA, a bit of help this past Saturday, by covering our field of winter...