School of Bean Keeping

The School of Bean Keeping is a relatively recent addition to the farming community outside of Parisius. It was originally an informal educational group that taught many basic farming techniques to the farmers & landowners of the Frankish Empire run by successful farmers. Now took over by Fransican monks it is now formally recognised as a training facility.

Purpose / Function

To teach & experminent with farming practises to increase the output of farms. It also examines & experiments with food production, harvesting techniques, water and soil health, livestock breeding, diseases / parasites / spoilage, and the transport & storage of foodstuffs. It also has a fully functional library drawn for literature throughout Europe and the Middle East.

Alterations

Extensive storage, research & training buildings, and fields cover the area outside it now stretching for roughly three miles in every direction.  Accomodation buildings now also hug the core administrative building at the centre of the School.

Architecture

Primarily rustic in it's archiyecyutr the School is to all intents & purpose a perfect represntation of peasent farming buildings used thorughout the surrounbding region.

History

Created initially near 50 years prior, the School was the brainchild of local authorities looking to increase the yield, quality, and storage of foodstuffs & drinkable liquids. It has grown due to patronage by the Fitzsimons & de Ath families who see the benefit of such processes, especially if boosted by magic. Though saying this, the latter is at times best avoided after a series of unfortunate accidents injvolving students, man-eating plants, and at times plants (especially vines) that are strictly not mentioned at all at least in polite society.
The school itself got the name of Bean Keeping from early success with beansprouts. It was discovered that crossbreeding some of the locals trains of beans created a more sturdy plant able to withstand droughts, and produced more beans when well irrigated. When not it still produced beans though smaller and less of them. The beans could be dplit into three basic varities mainly for lowland, highland and arid conditions, and subspieces crossbred to create a mix for most areas.
Eventually the Crown took an interest and the school became the main access to education for the farming communities from all over Frankia, and primarily Parisius. Students are sent there in their early teens and taught a few subjects. These are generally the following:

• Planting & Harvesting.
• Livestock Mainyenance.
• Building Maintanence.
• Ploughing.
• Natural Occuring Toxins & Diseases / Parasites.
• Building maintanence.
• Seasons.
• Water-way meintanence.
• Soil Maintanence & Turnover.
• Risks & Rewards of Magic & Religious Practise.
• Best Storage Practises.
• Pests and How to Death With Them.

Most choose a number of these courses, though a few will learn only one or two. The majority of students are from Freemen families and noble class families, most of which are wealthy enough to send them to the school. A few lower born children are sent to pick up a course or two by the noble who owns the land they farm so there is a mix of skills that can be used & passed on. Nobody stays more than 2 years maximum.
Many of the teachers are Roman Catholic priests with a few Druids and a few Pagan priests with the skills & knowledge there to pass on. The school is officially part of the Church, so the latter two are tolerated at best, and the odd time there has been sectarian tensions that arise. This can lead to outright violence if not kept in check by the local Parisian Bishopric doing regular spot checks to make sure there is little friction. Sometimes the Crown will do the odd spot check too, mainly to see that everything runs smoothly and any research carried out by the teachers when not teaching doesn't produce anything potentially hazardous to the Empire at large.

Founding Date

753 AD

Type

School

Parent Location

Parisius

Owner

Charlemagne

Ruling/Owning Rank

Emperor/Empress

Owning Organization

Roman Catholic