This starts in autumn with stubble cleaning using a chisel type cultivator in September to lift the weeds prior to ploughing during the whole winter.

Some ground is further cultivated for Autumn/Winter sown crops in Cornwall, like winter wheat or other corn.

In early Spring most of the remaining sowing of seed is carried out, with corn drills or planting vegetables with planters, e.g. The famous Cornish early potatoes, these would be lifted in very early summer.

Summertime brings out the harvesters, especially the old binders for the corn, leaving the sheaves to be built into Stooks of 6 or 8 sheaves to make a weatherproof little stack which can ripen the grain after cutting.

'Harvest Home' starts in September when the grain is ripe in the stook. This is carried by wagon and horses to either, a field stack in the corner of a field or 'Stack Yard'in the homestead, when they are covered down or, thatched in earlier times, ready for the threshing machine in October. All these events are punctuated by prepared meals like pasties (also a relic from the Old Mining Heritage) sandwiches, fruit and cider in the fields or hot meals prepared in the barns or farm houses for the large number of workers required for all these operations.