Agriculture

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Comment by Christine Gibbins on October 23, 2011 at 4:44am

Welcome to the new members, sadly this Group seems to be, almost a one man show, so please, share your farming notes.

Comment by Christine Gibbins on October 23, 2011 at 4:42am

We are just back from the UK Ploughman Championships, this is a link to the photos

Match Photos

Comment by Christine Gibbins on February 23, 2011 at 2:46am

A note taken from an old farm diary dated 1870

A Farmers Wife recipe for a Bullock in Scour c 1870 1oz Tumerick, 1oz Fenugreek, 1oz Sulhp Vivan, 1oz Aniseed, 1oz Dispenter, 1-1/2oz Drachm Opium ....to be given in a quart of strong beer.

[scour is loose droppings]

 

Comment by Christine Gibbins on January 9, 2011 at 2:49am

Edwardian Rural life, the BBC series is worth looking at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00w15jc

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2010/11/edwardian-farm.shtml

Comment by Christine Gibbins on December 13, 2010 at 1:06pm

The "Farmers Weekly" a UK magazine on line has this thread running on it's forums, the links and suggestions given to the original poster may be of interest:

http://www.fwi.co.uk/community/forums/history-of-agriculture-in-bri...

Comment by Steve Baldock on October 23, 2009 at 5:39pm

99.9% of my family ancestors were "Ag Lab".
Anyone with interests in East Kent?

Comment by Sean K on July 26, 2009 at 7:28am

Great idea for a Group! Most, if not all, of my paternal ancestors pre-1900 were connected to the rural farming industries, either small time farmers, shepherds or the eponymous "Ag Lab". I've only recently started celebrating this fact, gathering information about how they would've lived. It was certainyl tough, but at least they avoided the horrific diseases and crowding of the cities!

Comment by Christine Gibbins on July 23, 2009 at 1:21pm

A note to say Welcome to the members of this Group. I am based in the UK, so my thoughts and research are all based on Farming in the UK and the county of Devonshire. I am looking forward to hearing about Agriculture in other parts of the world too.
I look forward to your questions and your notes on your own research. I hope this will be a lively debate.
Best wishes, Chris

Comment by fkuyken on July 17, 2009 at 1:45pm

Christine,
I replied to your group before I noticed you were from the UK. I used some state abbreviations that I may need to clarify. MN is Minnesota. It touches the Canadian boarder and directly south of it is AR (Arkansas). These two states are in the center of the US.

I have British friends who became US citizens recently. Marguerite is from Grimsby (I think that is how it is spelled). It is on the eastern coast north of the London area.

I will be interested in comparing the farming traditions of the two countries. My parents are still living. Daddy is 87 and did a lot of orchard work during the 1930s in Arkansas. Mother is 84 are was raised on a farm in Minnesota.

While my husband are not "farmers," we try to raise a veggie garden each summer. Lately with the heat and lack of timely rain, we haven't been successful. We discussed that we really are lucky that our existence doesn't rely upon our raising our own food. I have such respect for my mother-in-law because her garden was the difference between eating well and doing not so well. More about that later.

I'm looking forward to hearing about your life in England.

Francis
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Hi Francis,

Yes farming is one of the most important things in all our lives now and way back when!!!
I hope to add some snippets of farm life that I have gleaned over the years, this will be UK based.

Best wishes Chris.

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Comment by fkuyken on July 17, 2009 at 6:16am

This really is an interesting topic since so many of us today are not into farming as an occupation. My maternal and paternal lines were farmers. Maternal in MN and paternal in AR during the 1800s. We can see where this group goes.

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