<much snippage>
> Where I live, cereal fields are enclosed by hedges of hazel, willow and=
> similar low-growth trees. After WW2 many of these hedges have been raze=
d
> to allow for combination-harvesters, but field size still is just a few=
> football fields apiece. The cereals alternate with raps (which would ha=
ve
> been flax fields a century ago, or beans) and roots or cabbages.
This reflects modern crop rotation, which in our world came in
comparatively recently around the time of the Industrial Revolution. Bef=
oe
that settled farmers had to allow the fields to lie fallow for one year i=
n
three.
Is the modern system known in Glorantha? Either way there must be a myth=
that explains why things are done the way they are. Has anyone written i= t?
Andrew
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