Harvest time near Tenterden in Kent

Harvest time was one of the busiest and most important in the agricultural calendar-without a good harvest people starved. Many traditions have grown up around the need to ensure that the crops were plentiful and the ground fertile. It was also a time that all farmers needed the cooperation of their farm-hands and when many workers could earn double their usual wage, and do twice the work. Traditionally, harvesting would have taken place in August but latterly the season has spread so that it now occurs at any point between July and September.

harvest Tenterden Kent

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