What is the traditional farming — the open field village like?

What is the traditional farming — the open field village like?

Villages were surrounded by three great hedgeless fields which centered all the arable land. These fields were divided into strips shared out among the villagers. Each family’s land was scattered about, so good land was fairly distributed. Much was done on a community basis. One great field left “fallow” each year so that its soil recovered its richness after two years’ cultivation. This meant only 23 of the land was cultivated at any time. This system was an ideal basis for the simple community life of the countryside and subsistence farming before the modem industrial age.