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Jun 26, 2024
The LANG organic farm (Biolandbetrieb) in Germany, its ecological farming methods and their current potato year
With over 33 years of experience, the small-scale ecological farm LANG has made significant strides. Their traditional farming methods,...
Jun 4, 2024
The "Solawi Große Erde", their community-supported agriculture and their start into the Potato Year
The Solawi ("Solidarische Landwirtschaft" meaning "community-supported agriculture") Große Erde, Vorderpfalz is supported by over 160...
May 24, 2024
Our potato fields in May
In the following photo compilation, we would like to give you a small impression of what our growers' potato fields around the world look li
May 14, 2024
From Planting to Hilling. Field Report from the "WIR in Lorsch" Project (Lauresham Open-Air Laboratory)
Three years ago, we – the Lauresham Open-Air Laboratory (part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Lorsch Abbey and the State Palaces and...
May 10, 2024
From Field Preparation to Planting – Insights at Hedge Rose Farm (OR, USA)
Hedge Rose Farm is located in the intermountain west, high desert area of Oregon. They're a small, primarily horse-powered market farm...
Jul 1, 2022
Looking back - a wheat cultivation cycle at Sterling College (Wendell Berry Farming Program, USA)
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...
Jun 22, 2022
Insights from our grower Denis Adam from his "La petite ferme de chanon" (France)
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...
Jun 8, 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...
May 25, 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 18, 2022
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...
May 11, 2022
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...
May 4, 2022
Let's plant the seeds early!
"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...
Apr 20, 2022
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...
Apr 17, 2022
Thoughts from the field: Ed Schultz on the pleasures of working the land
The Year On The Field project is more than a simple collaboration and research project. It is also about experiences, impressions and...
Apr 8, 2022
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...
Apr 1, 2022
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...
Mar 31, 2022
Wheat cultivation in the Panna district of Madhya Pradesh: presentation of an indigenous plough type
Malyaj Shrivastava, Contributor for the A Year On the Field project, travelled to the Panna district of Madhya Pradesh (India) last...
Mar 30, 2022
Soil preparation at Luisenhof (Germany)
To conclude our insights into soil preparation, today we would like to take a closer look at the work carried out at Luisenhof (Linden &...
Mar 25, 2022
Soil preparation at “La petite ferme de Chanon” (Denis Adam), France
Denis Adam and his family from “La petite ferme de Chanon” are yet another grower from the project. We are therefore happy to give you...
Mar 23, 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...
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