Historical origin of European openfields.

1. Continental openfields in Europe and inland
Spain.
Marta Sahagún. 3º ESO 2009-10. IES FRAY PEDRO DE URBINA

2. DEFINITION
Each peasant’ s lands are not separated, because
there is no element of enclosure.
And collectively among all farmers, it is decided
when to plant and how to plant.

3. Advantages
• It met the country's need for food for
many centuries.
• T system provided security -
he
villagers always had someone to
rely on for help and a sense of
structure.

4. Disadvantages
• It was very inefficient:
Land was wasted annually by the fallow field
because one third of the land went unused.
Land was wasted with pathways that
separated farmer's strips in the fields.
There were no fences, so animals sometimes
wandered around crushing crops.

5. Open-field in Europe
The openfield system was the
prevalent agricultural system
in much of Europe from the
Middle Ages to as recently as
the 20th century in some places.

6. ZONES WHERE YOU CAN FIND OPENFIELDS

7. EXAMPLE OF OPENFIELDS

8. • By Marta Sahagún