This week on the blog we continue our look at the structures of pre-modern grain farming by - at long last - actually discussing how one actually farms some grain with pre-modern technology and methods:https://acoup.blog/2020/08/06/collections-bread-how-did-they-make-it-part-iii-actually-farming/ …
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Wonderful writing as always. Assuming predominant usage of spring v. winter wheat varied geographically, for spring wheat locales, would the winter months still be considered a time of want? Wouldn't they be more of a time of plenty compared to summer (furthest from harvest)?
Yes. It's a question of harvest cycles. That said, my information on seasonal mortality data mostly comes from Roman Egypt (Egypt being the part of the Roman world for which we have the best data by far), so there might be quirks of other regions we can't see (or I don't know).
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Thanks. I'm trying to reconcile the popular concepts of fall harvest + winter want, but I realize those notions are are all coming to me from modern models of agriculture that probably don't apply here anyway.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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