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Medieval English strip farming was about fair land sharing, not soil health
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Feudal land equity, not soil science, gave rise to England's strip farming

English feudal lords divided fields into narrow strips to share land resources among peasants equitably, with soil benefits arriving as a byproduct.

Why it mattersThe contrast with American strip cropping shows how similar farming techniques can emerge from opposite motivations: equity in one case, ecology in the other.

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