Farmer

Farm work is all year round, hard work for farmers and their familes.

Generic Crop Schedule

Arai (spring)

Start of the farming year, the farmland is ploughed if soft enough and fertilised with animal droppings. Crops begin to be sowed including barley, oats, peas, and beans. Some weeding will need to start taking place.

Eldah (spring)

Any land not ploughed yet is now ploughed and seeds sown, lettuces, cabbages and onions begin their growth cycles on top of flax and hemp. The weeding process is now in full swing with everyone helping to remove weeds. Workers need to keep ever vigilant and scare any any birds or other creatures trying to eat the crops. Fruit bearing trees need to be pruned, removing branches to encourage it to grow more quickly and produce more fruit. Milk is collected from cattle and the cheese making process begins.

Tairon (summer)

Some crops are ready to harvest at this stage such as garlic, any remaining spring onions, baby turnips and more green leaves. Shearing of livestock begins and wool is collected and/or sold off. Grass is harvested at this stage to make hay.

Fores (summer)

Fields are ploughed where any crops have been harvested. Gathering is in full swing now becoming a time consuming task. Wood is collected in preparation for the winter months. The flax and hemp are harvested using special techniques.

Melor (summer)

The start of the harvest season, everyone is working long hours and doing back breaking work as most crops are gathered, picked or harvested at this time. A team of 5 can harvest 2 acres of crops a day with scythes and basic tools.

Rall (autumn)

Harvesting continues and there is usually a feast and celebration at the end of the month marking harvest season completed. Wheat harvested has to be tied in sheaves to dry. Winnowing takes place to separate the grain from the chaff after it has been beaten to separate them, it can then be milled into flour to make bread. Beans and peas are harvested at this time.

Oban (autumn)

Milling picks up and takes up more time as more bread is made and flour stored away. Smaller amounts are done by hand but the majority is usually done in a mill powered by either water, wind or animals. Tying and winnowing are still going strong. Winter wheat and rye is sown at this time. Honey is harvested at this time, cattle and sheep bred, fields ploughed and fruit trees and berry bushes picked. Acorns and nuts are also gathered now. More firewood is collected for storage over winter.

Toloor (winter)

Weaving begins and this process is used to make all manner of things from baskets, fences, walls and even wool must be weaved. Some crops are now sown in the fields. Animals are put out on the fields for their dung and additional manure is spread an the fields, some fleeces are sewn together to make rugs and blankets.

Nattis (winter)

Weaving continues throughout winter. Some livestock is butchered to provide meat through the winter and some is either salted or smoked to be preserved to last longer. Salt is expensive so not much gets used heere but the fires inside houses provide ample smoke for meat.

Tharr (winter)

Farm tools and equipment are repaired or new ones made. Weaving continues on. Digging in preparation for the next farming year. Trees are given another round of pruning.

Items Produced

Common

Wheat
Rye
Barley
Oats
Berries
Herbs
Milk
Butter
Cheese
Hay

Uncommon

Peas
Beans
Onons
Leaks
Garlic
Potato
Sweet Potato
Turnips
Flax
Hemp

Rare

Parsnips
Carrots
Raddishes
Pumpkins
Cabbage
Beetroot
Tomatoes
Lettuce
Peppers
Meat