"Ultimately, by introducing oil palm to Central America, United Fruit's crop diversification project served to replace one #monoculture with another."

"Beyond Bananas: The United Fruit Company and Agricultural “Diversification”"

https://read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural-history/article-abstract/97/3/383/381632/Beyond-BananasThe-United-Fruit-Company

#AgriculturalHistory #EnvHist #Histodons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eAeQzWuPkU

#AgriculturalHistory #LosAngeles

USDA's National Agricultural Library currently has an online exhibit on the history of Farmers Markets (in the US, 20th and 21st c.)

https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/ipd/localfoods/exhibits/show/stands-and-markets/farmers-markets

#History #AgriculturalHistory

An ordinary #hedge line? Think again. The tell-tale reverse S bend, an echo of the aratral curve formed by the ploughmen and their ox-teams working the #medieval open #fields. The hedge itself, following the grain of the old field-system it replaced, speaks of the slow process of piecemeal #enclosure rather than wholesale and rapid landscape change. Quite a #history told by such an everyday feature of the #Midlands #Landscape. #AgriculturalHistory #Nottinghamshire

NEW BLOG POST.
DVD REVIEW: Tales From the Green Valley
In an old stone-built cottage experts recreate how life would have been in 1620, in the reign of James I of England.
#17thcentury #agriculture #agriculturalhistory #farmlife #review #blog #socialhistory #domestichistory
https://ukgenealogylinks.com/2023/01/15/dvd-review-tales-from-the-green-valley/

#CowsofMastodon
This government information film was made in 1944. It contains a great deal of footage of cattle in the Welland Valley in the opening sequences. The film shows how the land was mostly grazing, & it was only in the following years that much of it turned to arable.
I recognise quite a few of the locations, as I grew up in this area, 20 years after it was filmed.

https://archive.org/details/TheGrassyShires

Can you recognise any of these locations?

#LandscapeHistory #AgriculturalHistory