The Portuguese ultimately took control of worldwide sugar production in the 15th century. Introduction From a humble...
Agriculture
Three events set the stage—and would influence agriculture for centuries—in Europe. Introduction Agriculture in the Middle Ages describes...
Farmers markets aren’t just for yuppies – they are increasingly serving customers at all social and economic...
Without imported food, Athens would have starved. The 630,000 acres of land in Attica, the region in...
The birth of agriculture was a pivotal moment in human history that allowed the earliest civilizations to...
Texans can buy 12th Man Coffee in select retailers beginning in June. By Kerry HallidayMarketing Strategy CoordinatorTexas...
Agriculture was the foundation of the Ancient Greek economy. Nearly 80% of the population was involved in this activity.[1] Curated/Reviewed...
Throughout the wartime years, the need for workers in agriculture, as well as in manufacturing and the...
How 2,000-year-old date palm seeds were brought back to life, with recipes to make at home. By...
Tobacco, and the economic system of mercantilism, factored into the grievances of the colonists leading to the...
Tobacco, along with the “three sisters” (beans, maize, and squash), was among the most significant crops cultivated...
The fields cover the remains of hundreds of stone age farms. By Jenny SnookHistorian Overview The Ceide...
A neolithic farm in Scotland that may be the oldest in northern Europe. / Photo by Drewcorser, Wikimedia...
This copy of a medieval manuscript illustration shows a peasant using a very modest version of the...
Early agrarian women—like these murdered in what is now western France some 6500 years ago—may have been...
Certain technological developments singlehandedly pushed the growth of population across the whole of the continent. By Dimitris Romeo Havlidis...
A view of the millstones and oven of a bakery (Pistrinium) in the Roman town of Pompeii which was buried in...
Olive trees on the Greek island of Anaxos. Cereals / Wikimedia Commons The prosperity of the majority...
Give a man a ploughshare, and he’ll turn it into a sword. Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH An elite class...
The owner of this skull had a nasty run in with an axe. Christian Meyer These massacres entail killing...
The decoration of choice by Europe’s farming-friendly forefathers. Solange Rigaud, Author provided Studying beads, shells and animal teeth –...
Photograph originally published in Horace Edward Stockbridge’s Land Teaching (Southern Ruralist Company, 1910). / Wikimedia Commons By...
Coffee’s usefulness doesn’t have to end here. Yanadhorn/Shutterstock.com Plenty of cafes these days will let you take home...
Beans have travelled a long way to make your cup of coffee. Jack Fussell/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND By Don Brushett /...
The Growroom exhibited at Copenhagen Opera House. Photo by Alona Vibe From Space10 / 02.14.2017 Introduction The design...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.24.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief The Agriculture Market Landscape Introduction The agricultural...
Farmers’ Institute at Badger, Minnesota, in Roseau County, June 9, 1904 / Minnesota Historical Society By Dr....
Years of plowing and planting left soil depleted and weak. As a result, clouds of dust fell...
Ancient Egyptian plowing farmer scene from the burial chamber of Sennedjem / The Yorck Project via Wikimedia Commons By...
Barley continues to be the staple diet of people living in this Dolpo Valley of Nepal, a...