What Is Strip Farming?

Strip farming is a type of pest control, if a pest is used to eating one crop in one specific place, the next season the farmers plant another crop in that specific place that pests don't like, the pests will go away.

Strip farming was a way to grow crops in straight lines in medieval Britain. The land was shared out equally to all members of the village and was alot easier to maintain and harvest. Everyone would get some good and bad land so everyone could grow more high quality crops. Strip farming was also very good for the villagers as everyone had a job working on the stips. Therefore when they abandoned it in 1800's many people were out of a job and the food that was being grown on the more widescale farms was less available and less cheap.

Strip Farming is the arrangement of the crops grown in fields into "strip" patterns to prevent wind erosion and loss of top soil. For details, click here