WA Pearce & Sons Farms

LINCOLNSHIRE

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We are a small, family run Arable Farm in South Lincolnshire in the UK – known as The Fenlands, it’s very, very flat. We are based on two tenanted farms and grow: Potatoes – which we sell to the trade and to the public; Wheat; Barley; Oil Seed Rape (OSR); Peas; Sugar Beet, and sometimes we also grow Triticale; Oats; Beans and Linseed.

The Seasons of the Countryside.

Wassail

The word wassail finds its roots in the Old English toast “Waes Hael”, meaning “be well” or “good health”. The traditional response, “Drink Hael”, completed the exchange, offering the wish: “drink well”. Over time, this cheerful blessing gave its name to a seasonal custom observed in various forms throughout England.

Traditionally held around Twelfth Night (5 January) or on Old Twelvey Night (17 January, following the Julian calendar), wassailing marked a turning point in the winter season. With the worst of the cold still to come and the memory of the harvest still lingering, people gathered to encourage fertility, health and abundance for the year ahead.

Plough Monday

Plough Sunday is thought to be a very ancient festival, abandoned at the Reformation and then revived by the Victorians. Traditionally it was celebrated on the first Sunday after Epiphany, which falls on 6 January, and then ploughing began the next day, Plough Monday. Since Victorian times many farms have owned their own plough, so a representative plough was brought into church for a blessing, but in the medieval period, when there was only one plough in each village, the village plough was drawn through the streets to be blessed at the church, and was followed with much food, drinking and revelry.

There have been some revivals of Plough Sunday services – thee involved the blessing of the Plough either on Plough Monday or the Sunday immediately before or after, in fact there is one at Moulton Chapel Methodist Chapel.