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From field to bowl

In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 11

Harvested rice grains generally are stored in their husks until needed for food. At that time, the husks must be removed either in large stone or wood mortars with pestles wielded by farmers, or by the kind of mechanical threshing machine seen here. Such machines...

By Lorraine Aragon.

Threshing machine ejects rice into basin at mill near Mai Chau

The spout of a threshing machine ejects rice into a red-rimmed white basin at a mill near Mai Chau. A sack to carry a large load of rice is visible at left. Harvested rice grains generally are stored in their husks until needed for food. At that time, the...

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Denton Farmpark

Only open to the public three times a year, the Denton Farmpark takes students back to yesteryear with exhibits showing farming tools and techniques of the past.

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Women at work in Purang village, Nepal

Three women are drying and threshing the harvest. The terraced fields in the background appear brown because of the maturing buckwheat plants. Purang village is between Muktinath and Jomsom and lies near the border of India and Nepal.

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A New Deal mural in the Lincolnton Post Office

This is a New Deal mural in the Lincolnton Post Office in Lincolnton, North Carolina. It is titled "Threshing Grain" and was painted by Richard Jansen in 1938. It was restored in 2004.

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Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam

Photographs and text tell the story of rice and rural life in Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on the highlanders, or Montagnards.

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Cutting rice stalks

Two women cut the ripe rice stalks for harvesting in the terraced rice fields of the Hyangja village in Nepal. Nepali women work hard farming, in addition to taking care of the household work. Early varieties of rice, which require less time to ripen, are...

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Vietnam Mekong Delta tour: Harvesting rice

This was recorded as part of a multi-day Mekong Delta tour that started in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) and finished in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It is a unique experience to cross the border over water rather than overland. We were amongst the first groups...

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Life on the land: The Piedmont before industrialization

In North Carolina in the New South, page 1.1

In the decades after the Civil War, commercial agriculture and industry made their way into the North Carolina Piedmont, requiring subsistence farmers to adapt their farms and their ways of life to new economic realities.

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By James Leloudis and Kathryn Walbert.

Vietnam Mekong Delta tour: The process of growing, harvesting rice

This was recorded as part of a multi-day Mekong Delta tour that started in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) and finished in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It is a unique experience to cross the border over water rather than overland. We were amongst the first groups...

Format: audio

The importance of rice to North Carolina

In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.2

Rice was a very profitable crop in the late 1600s. People in foreign lands were already familiar with it, and it was gaining popularity as a food for the growing slave trade. Rice production helped support North Carolina's economy for many years, relying largely on slave labor. The abolition of slavery marked the beginning of the end of rice plantations in North Carolina.

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By Keri Towery.

A revolution in agriculture

In North Carolina in the New South, page 1.2

Science and technology made farmers more productive in the nineteenth century, but added expenses that drove small farmers off the land.

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Resources on the web

The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920

This site, comprised of the Hultstrand and Pazandak collections, contains 900 photographs of rural and small town life at the turn of the century. (Learn more)

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