Open Field Farming

Open field farming was a system, which included the village and the people that were living there. Most people that were living in the village owned a strip of land, which they would look after and grow crops on, usually the same crop as the other strip owners. Each strip usually had two to four wide ridges.
Common land was for everyone who farmed land and the more land they owned the more animals they could have on the common land. There were problems about squatters on the comm...