• Discussion of the Victorian farming-year with the aid of farm artefacts, these are contrasted with modern machinery.
• The children hear about ploughing of fields and about protection and growing of wheat, from sowing through to harvest and milling. Artefacts such as an antique plough, a seed fiddle, flails and winnowing baskets are demonstrated to the children.
• Modern equivalents of some of the artefacts are used today in many parts of the world; where appropriate this will be highlighted. We have modern winnowing baskets from China and a modern quern from India.
• Children have the opportunity to mill flour with the hand quern.

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Curriculum links
Geography: 
Seasons 
Food and Farming

Science: 
Life and living processes
Green plants as organisms

History:
Victorians

RE: 
Harvest.

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