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  • Harvesting aleum, from the 14th-century manuscript Tacuinum sanitatis.
    The Middle Ages
    LuAnn Johnson
    During the Middle Ages in Britain, the monasteries were the places with the space and the knowledge to garden.
  • A man carrying turnips, allegedly good for treating dry intestines, bad eyesight, and a great support for coitus (fol. 21v). The Liechtenstein Tacuinum Sanitatis, Padua, c. 1450.
    Medieval Gardens
    LuAnn Johnson
    In AD 830, St. Benedict said that gardening was appropriate manual labor for monks and that all monasteries should have a psychic garden, kitchen garden, cellar garden, an orchard, and a private garden for monks of high office.
  • Chestnuts fall from the tree when they're ready, but they're often still covered in a protective prickly shell.
    Now is the time for chestnuts
    Kayte Young
    What would it look like for midwestern farmers to convert row crops into tree crops?