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🇬🇧 FIVE FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT HARVEST 🇬🇧 🌾The word harvest comes from the Old English haerfest, meaning Autumn. 🌾Depending on conditions, harvest time can take place as early as July, all the way through to September (and occasionally October for us, with our farm situated on higher ground on the Wolds and due to us growing our annual bean crops!). 🌾The combine harvester was invented in the US by Hiram Moore in 1834. Earlier versions were pulled by teams of horses, donkeys, or mules. Moore invented a full-scale version by 1839. 🌾The name of the combine harvester was derived from it combining three separate operations involved in harvesting – reaping, threshing, and winnowing, into a single process. 🌾Corn dollies are one of the customs of early harvest time. In pagan times, people believed that the spirit of the corn lived in the crop so when the crop was harvested, the spirit was left homeless. So, the last sheaf of the harvest was made into a “corn dolly”, which spent the winter in the farmer’s home and was believed to bring luck for the next harvest. 📸 @charlieebarley #itsharvesttime #harvest2023 #summertime #farminguk #britishfarming