Fine Art Tuesday

 

Plough (Plow) Monday was the first Monday after January 6 (the last of the twelve-days-of-Christmas) when all good farm workers were expected to return to fields and women were expected to resume spinning and carding wool. In many communities in pre-Industrial England there was a parade in the morning and then back to the grind until Easter and then Summer faire"

What struck me was the birds.

In the absence of synthetic fertilizers, manure was hoarded and returned to the fields and a season of "fallow" or "lees" was a common part of crop rotation.

Fields treated that way were rich in earthworms and beetles which attracted the birds as the plow turned the soil and exposed them.

Tongue-in-cheek commentary by the driver of the tractor as he videos this happening behind a tractor-drawn plow.