Year On The Field “Wheat Year” Completion
The Year On The Field project looks back on a successful first crop year from preparation to processing. We learned about diverse...
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Jan 20, 2023
Grain Harvesting Technology at The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan, USA
Museum collections contain material culture documenting grain harvesting tools and equipment. The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, USA,...
Jan 19, 2023
Threshing day at Luisenhof (Germany)
Today we are happy to post yet another final wheat-report, in this case from our grower Luisenhof in Germany. Here comes the personal...
Dec 23, 2022
Christmas baking with sourdough: the Italian panettone
During the Christmas time, we all like to bake and try out new recipes to share with family and friends. In my home country Italy, we...
Dec 21, 2022
Wheat - a photo series of Colonial Williamsburg (USA)
Although wheat was not grown this year at Colonial Williamsburg, this series of captioned photos over the previous years can show you the...
Dec 19, 2022
Wheat processing at Carter Historic Farm (USA)
We are happy to share Corinne Gordons report on wheat processing at Carter Historic Farm as part of our last posting regarding our wheat...
Dec 10, 2022
"Share the harvest" Program at Howell Living History Farm (Mercer County, NJ, USA)
As reported in detail in one of the previous blog-posts, the wheat at Howell Living History Farm was harvested using both historic and...
Dec 1, 2022
Early 20th century wheat processing in Lorsch (Germany)
In addition to medieval cultivation methods, the Lauresham Open-Air Laboratory (Germany) also explored agricultural technologies and...
Nov 16, 2022
FAQ Sourdough
WHAT IS IT? Sourdough is a natural fermented leavening agent made of only two ingredients: flour and water. During the process of...
Nov 10, 2022
Wheat Harvest and Reaper Technology at Firestone Farm in Greenfield Village at The Henry Ford (USA)
Lazy days of summer start for some farmers only after they finish the most stressful time of their year – grain harvest. Wheat ripeness...
Nov 7, 2022
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 3, 2022
Wheat harvest at Howell Living History Farm (USA)
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...
Oct 28, 2022
Wheat harvest at the Luisenhof (Germany)
We are happy to post a short report about the wheat harvest at Luisenhof: During the wheat harvest, our friend Markus supported us with...
Oct 11, 2022
Wheat harvest at the Hessenpark Open-Air Museum (Germany)
In the second week of August the team of the Hessenpark Open-Air Museum harvested their grain. Due to extremely dry weather, it could...
Sep 28, 2022
The wheat cultivation cycle at the Lauresham Open-Air Lab (Germany) - a "video diary"
The Lauresham Open-Air Laboratory is focusing on educating the public about the Early Middle Ages and is at the same time a research...
Sep 19, 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 8, 2022
Wheat harvesting, a popular tradition and a how-to chart
The wheat has been harvested, so time to check out a few of the ways that might have been done, but first, a taste of a wheat product not...
Aug 24, 2022
A Year on the Field at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum
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...
Aug 17, 2022
Wheat harvest at Genesee Country Village and Museums (NY, USA)
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...
Jul 13, 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...
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