“It’s exciting to see how it went down back in the day,” said Christel Jenkins as she stood under a tree and watched wheat being separated, cleaned and bundled.
FEDERALSBURG The Eastern Shore Threshermen and Collectors Association will celebrate 50 years of the annual Wheat Threshing, Steam & Gas Engine Show from Friday through Sunday at its showgrounds ...
Harvesting small grains on the farm was always a major task each summer. Farmers needed to cut the wheat or oats, tie them into bundles and when dried, load the bundles onto horse-drawn racks to bring ...
When Natalie Marrone began research for her dance, “Thresh,” a meditation on wheat and the old ways of harvesting it, she did not have to go far afield. “My dad grew up threshing wheat,” Marrone said ...