Knoxville Farming Plans!

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[!] A note is pinned to the Knoxville Noticeboard

Farming Plans!

~Icarus in front of fields of Knoxville!~

As our village is properly founded now, t'is time we set our efforts towards putting proper food on the table! Here be my proposal:

 

-Split our fields into 3 different groups for planting!

-For each field, we do a sort of crop rotation, growin' winter wheat one year, root crops another year, an' oats for the third year, so that the soils of any one field does not get depleted. The three different planting groups are thus all on a different crop every year, giving us ample variety all of the time!

-We devote time to properly weeding the crops once planting finishes, raking them back into the soil to once again become nutrients!

-And once all of our harvesting duties be finished, we hold a big festival!

 

T'a Planting Calendar:

Spring: Plough fields for oats and root crops with our mould-board plough, sow them with seeds using dibbling sticks, and then harrow the fields with bundles of hay to cover the seeds with dirt and keep them protected from birds!

Summer: Weed the crops with rakes and sickles. Take care of any gardening work that needs to be done, early summer be a good time for planting any fast-growin' herbs! Root crops mature late in the summer, so they can be dug up with shovels and prepared for future planting!

Autumn: Harvestin' of winter wheat begins in late summer an' early autumn, and the oats be harvested a little bit later since they nay sprouted over the winter and early spring as the wheat did. Scythes ought to do good for the harvest, so we should stock up on a few good ones. Finally, winter wheat be planted in the autumn, to be harvested next year. Since root crops can be harvested earlier than oats, the fields sowed with root crops will be planted with winter wheat for next harvest.

Winter: Fertilize the fields with any spare manure, take care of forestry work and animals, and otherwise stay warm and cozy!

 

Weh rotate fields from one crop to another as the years go by. First a field grows oats, then it grows root crops, then it grows winter wheat, and then it be growin' oats again, and so on and so forth.

 

So, what'chah think? Anybody have better plans for how to organize our fields?

-Filibert Applefoot, halfling of Knoxville

 

((Each IRL week will correspond to a different season and have different farm-related events done within said week. Hopefully this will make Knoxville a good ol' proper farming village!))

 

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Research and inspiration:
https://www.witheridge-historical-archive.com/medieval-year.htm

also this post from ardacraft