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      <pubDate>2022-12-06 12:56:28 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1624- Wool and Knitting</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410609198</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>The fisherman's sweater to which the island gave its name, was made in Jersey, however it was woollen stockings which were in such demand that they were exported in their thousands every week, mainly to Continental Europe.<br><br>George Balleine said<br>"This work became so profitable that even men took to it, and the States grew worried lest the land should go out of cultivation, and threatened imprisonment on bread and water to anyone caught knitting during harvest or the vraicing season. In 1624 a petition asked for larger supplies of wool from England because "more than a thousand souls have no other means to get their living but by knitting stockings";&nbsp;<br><br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 12:57:43 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1673- Act passed which forbade the planting of any new orchards</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410613897</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>&nbsp;In the 17th century the States of Jersey became concerned that too much land was being used for orchards, at the expense of vital crops such as corn, so in 1673 an Act was passed which forbade the planting of any new orchards. They were concerned after the rapid development of new houses and expanding orchards caused the King's revenue to decrease (cost of importing grain and falling tithes). Only trees which replaced existing ones could be planted.<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:01:25 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1750s- Potatoes vs Parsnips</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410614536</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Potatoes have been grown in Jersey since the mid 18<sup>th</sup> Century, with potato crops having to compete with parsnip crops.&nbsp;<br><br>The growing of parsnips probably brought big Ploughs (LA GRAND’ TCHÉTHUE) to Jersey in 1768, as parsnips had long roots and needed a depth of cultivated soil to grow in. This plough would need up to 12 horses to pull it!</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:01:57 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1800- Cider &amp; Knitwear thrive</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410620309</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>The apple crop dominated horticulture by the middle of the 17th century. At the beginning of the 18th century 13,500 vergees (one-quarter of the land) was under orchards. This included 19 per cent of enclosed land and 15 per cent of all cultivated land that was covered in apple orchards. Cider &amp; knitwear exports thrived. <strong><br></strong><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:06:43 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1801- Aperçu sur Les Cidres</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410620792</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>1801- Rev Francois Le Couteur published <em>Aperçu sur Les Cidres</em>, giving instructions on how to plan, plant and care for a cider orchard, and how to make and store the cider itself. He estimated that production in a normal year amounted to up to 35,000 barrels, of which 20,000 were consumed in the island and the remainder exported.<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:07:06 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1807- Early potato exports</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410622309</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Potatoes were being grown in and exported from Jersey as early as 1807, taking advantage of a beneficial climate and good soil. In 1807 the first exports of “early potatoes” were lifted in August/ September totalling 600 tonnes.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:08:26 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1815- Report</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410625614</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>London's Board of Agriculture report noted that: "Jersey cider is in great esteem and has become a leading article among its exports. One-fourth of its arable land is computed to be occupied by apple trees, most extensively in the parishes of St Martin, Grouville, St Clement and St Saviour. Apple trees of various descriptions are cultivated, some of French origin, some English, and some of native produce.”<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:10:58 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1833- Royal Jersey Agricultural &amp; Horticultural Society</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410626622</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>The formation of the Royal Jersey Agricultural &amp; Horticultural Society took place in 1833. </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:11:46 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1845- Potato Blight</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410629769</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Potato blight affected Jersey in 1845. This had previously devastated other countries, such as Ireland.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:14:00 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1850s- John Le Caudey</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410630639</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>By the middle of the century it had been recognised by one of the pioneers of the industry, St Ouen farmer John Le Caudey, that a particularly early crop could be harvested from some south-facing, sloping fields. This early crop would fetch high prices and could be exported to London.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:14:39 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1818- Thomas Quayle quote</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410633205</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><br>Thomas Quayle says that he gathered information from some of the most important men in Jersey, and gives full details of the method of cultivation - the best existing account of the times. He says:<br><br></div><div><em>Originally the potato was cultivated more as an object of curiosity than otherwise ... and was roughly attended to ... small patches in the corners of the then abounding orchards were occasionally seen, frequently irregularly planted and the tubers being dug up as required, indeed the whole affair managed, as we see now in the out-of-the-way corner of a garden - a bed ofJerusalcm artichokes; they were large, coarse and knotty; a dirty and ill-eared-for crop ... and largely used for fattening hogs and stock for market.</em><br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:16:39 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1855- Cider decline and replacement with potatoes</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410634253</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Cider exports began to tail off after 1855 and within 20 years had fallen to virtually nothing. Industrial advances in England made cider-making more popular there. During this period the export of potatoes was increasingly steadily. Jersey farmers had found a more profitable crop and were cutting down their apple orchards and ploughing the fields to grow potatoes<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:17:29 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1866- Jersey Herd Book</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410635676</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>The Jersey Herd Book was established in 1866. All of the Jersey cattle in the Island are pedigree registered in the Jersey Herd Book. There is a small population of crossbred beef animals reared for the local market.&nbsp;Histories of breeding are within this book.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:18:36 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1868- Exports of potatoes achieve 7890 tons.</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410639678</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong><br></strong><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:21:13 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1878- Hugh de la Haye and the Jersey Royal Flukes</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410640755</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>A potato farmer <a href="http://theislandwiki.org/index.php/Hugh_de_la_Haye">Hugh de la Haye</a>,&nbsp; went to Le Caudey’s store and discovered two large potatoes, with one plant produced uniquely kidney-shaped potatoes. The resultant crop was a mix of kidney-shaped and round of which he was impressed by the flavour of the kidney potatoes.The potatoes were displayed in the window of the local newspaper and given the name The Jersey Royal Flukes as was the custom during the reign of Queen Victoria to name things in her honour. Hugh de la Haye went on to increase stocks of the new seed.<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:21:58 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1890- Testimonial presented to Hugh De La Haye</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410641262</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>In 1890 friends and fellow farmers presented him with a testimonial for his introduction of the Jersey Royal Fluke.<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:22:21 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1891- Exports increase</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410642109</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Exports of 70,000 tons of potatoes brought in nearly half a million pounds and after the first world war exports were worth double this amount and kept growing. Many a farmer made his fortune and the best cotils, producing the earliest and most valuable crop, change hands for enormous sums.<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:22:53 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1890- Tomatoes</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410643422</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Jersey’s climate was also ideal for growing tomatoes and at the end of the 1800’s this crop was further enhancing the income of the Jersey farmer.</div><div><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:23:47 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1900- investment and vraicing</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410644569</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Investment in the countryside infrastructure including elaborate granite retaining walls built to improve access to the very valuable cotils and earliest fields.Vraicing the land, particularly the lighter soils, is important for maintaining yields.<br><br>The picture is of a Vraic Fork from Samares Manor.</div><div><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:24:27 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1940-1945 German Occupation of Channel Islands</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410645340</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>During the Occupation, farming in Jersey was impacted under military occupation and adapted from production of export crops to feeding the local population.&nbsp;<br><br>There was a fear of excessive numbers of Jersey cows being slaughtered for meat.<br><br>Following WWII, there were 1000 agricultural holdings.<br><br></div>]]></description>
         <enclosure url="https://www.ruraljersey.co.uk/category-farming-in-the-occupation-2/" />
         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:24:57 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>2001- Anne Perchard MBE</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410645924</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Anne Perchard, née Billot MBE ( 1932 – 2013) was a cattle farmer at La Ferme. She was the first female director of the Jersey Milk Marketing Board, Vice President of the Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society and President of the World Jersey Cattle Bureau. Anne was awarded an OBE in 2001 for her service to agriculture and the Jersey breed worldwide. She is described as “Champion of the Jersey Cow - Farmer &amp; President of the World Jersey Cattle Bureau”.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:25:22 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>2008- Genetics</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410646642</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Genetics and management techniques are adapted to improve milk production efficiency. The 2008 decision by the States of Jersey government, amending the ban on breeding stock importation that had been in place for over three centuries, allowed pedigreed jersey genetics from outside Jersey to enhance the development of the breed within Jersey.<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:25:51 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>2017- Jersey is known for its potatoes and ice cream</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410647787</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>The value of potatoes exported was £32 million. Also in this year, 24 million Jersey Dairy ice cream cones were served in the UK.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:26:34 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>2018</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410648148</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Agricultural land covered 5,895 hectares (32,748 vergées), which is 51% of the Island’s area (64,612 vergées)&nbsp;<br><br>Milk production on dairy farms supplying Jersey Dairy was 14.3 million litres, a decrease of around 600,000 litres compared to 2017&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:26:48 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>2021- Fewer farm operations</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410650058</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>The total area of land under cultivation at around 36,500 vergées (2.25 vergées in an English acre), represents 56% of the island area.&nbsp; However, there is less than 100 commercial farm operations.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:28:02 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>2021- Aging sector</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410650852</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>The average age of agriculturalists in the rural sector is 55, showing the succession issues the industry faces.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:28:32 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>2022- Pressures</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410652199</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>From May, agricultural input cost inflation is running at 30% in the UK, and locally some costs are up by as much as 50% due to Brexit, the war in Ukraine and covid.&nbsp;<br><br>The price of fertiliser for Jersey farmers has almost tripled in the last three years from around £300 per tonne in 2020 to around £800 per tonne for 2023 orders.</div>]]></description>
         <enclosure url="https://www.itv.com/news/channel/2022-09-07/jersey-farmers-call-for-1-of-public-funding-to-be-spent-on-agriculture" />
         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:29:30 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>2022- November- Financial support promises</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410657907</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Economic Development Minister Kirsten Morel highlighted next year’s spending plans, including an extra £1.5m of support for the sector, and said that more money would be available after that.<br><br></div><div>This is on top of £400,000 of emergency funding given to dairy farmers in September to counter a ‘perfect storm’ of threats, including this summer’s drought, the war in Ukraine’s impact on fertiliser production and rising costs, including an increase in the minimum wage.<br><br></div>]]></description>
         <enclosure url="https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2022/11/11/minister-details-plans-to-boost-support-for-farmers/" />
         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:33:24 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>2022- May- Economic Framework for the Rural Environment produced by States of Jersey</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410659692</link>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:34:41 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1299- Vraic</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410667554</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Vraic - the usual Jersey term for seaweeds of various sorts - as a highly effective fertiliser for crops such as potato. Records from 1299 show that it was a frequent cause of quarrels and even criminal charges in the Royal Court when there were violent clashes between collectors.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
         <enclosure url="https://members.societe-jersiaise.org/sdllj/vraic.html" />
         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:40:03 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Late 1500s- Further rules on vraic</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410671552</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>In the late 16th century when Calvinist ecclesiastical law was at least as important as secular statutes, parish Constables told farmers the dates on which vraic might be cut in allocated zones of the shoreline.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:42:52 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1290s</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410673667</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>For centuries vraitcheurs relied on horses and carts - particularly the hernais, a two-wheel conveyance with no springs often portrayed by Jersey artist Edmund Blampied.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:44:17 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Late 1600s -Knitting Restrictions</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410674831</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Restrictions were placed on knitting, an activity which occupied a great many Island households, so that vraicing would not be interrupted.&nbsp;<br><br>Knitting was such a widespread and profitable activity in 17th century Jersey that the island's farming industry began to suffer badly as workers refused to till the fields and whole families devoted their waking hours to making woollen garments<br><br>In 1682 Poingdestre's Caesarea said: "There are many houses where man, wife, and children, beginning at the age of five, have no other employment, and may be said to make everyone a pair of stockings every week, which must come to more than 10,000 pairs weekly."</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Knitting a Jersey</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410676875</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Jersey, in the Channel Islands, was famous for its knitting trade in medieval times, and because of that original fame, the name "jersey" is still applied to many forms of knitted fabric, which transferred to the garments made from the fabric.<br>The word “Jersey” is a widely used term in the current day and has different meanings dependent on the context in which it is used. Within the context of Channel Island fishing communities however, a “Jersey” had a distinct meaning.<br><br>Based on the original pattern for a Guernsey, a Jersey is identified by the pattern of an anchor knitted in relief almost like a “crest”.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:46:16 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1066- Cider and apple growing traditions</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410689885</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>The romans introduced cultivated apples to Britain.<br>However, in 1066- Normans brought cider-making and apple growing traditions with them.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:54:38 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Orchard planting</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410695822</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>The extent of orchard growing had an effect on Jersey’s landscape. The field structures and patterns that exist today reflect this influence. Each field used for growing apples was enclosed, usually with a solid earth bank with a hedge on either side, which would provide some shelter for crops. Lanes reached into the fields and began to look like they do now.<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 13:58:06 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1680- apple glut</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410703530</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>There were insuffient barrels in Jersey to make cider with the amount of apples grown, so rotten apples were fed to pigs, which were common to own. This also led to some houses creating stills for 'eau de vie' spirit making in years of apple glut.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 14:02:52 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1682- Jean Poingdestre</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410715547</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Jerseyman Jean Poingdestre wrote 'There is hardly a house in the Island, except for St Helier, that did not have an orchard of from one to two vergees, sufficient to produce an average of 20 hogsheads a year'.&nbsp;<br><br>Hogsheads are a measurement for alcohol, and one hogshead is 54 gallons.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 14:09:37 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1700- Normandy cider import prohibited.</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410721313</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>By the late seventeeth century, corn growing had almost completely been replaced by apple cultivation, meaning the Island was no longer self-sufficient in grain.<br><br></div><div>Locally produced cider was being exported to England and importation of cider and cider apples from Normandy was prohibited.<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 14:13:14 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1469- Mont Orgueil Castle store</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410722710</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Records show that in 1469 and 1531 the stores at <a href="http://theislandwiki.org/index.php/Mont_Orgueil">Mont Orgueil</a> Castle included cider supplied by merchants in Caen.<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 14:14:04 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1790- Jersey Agricultural Society</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410725928</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Reverend Francis Le Couteur founded the first Jersey Agriculture Society, with the aim of improving agricultural practices, including cider making.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 14:15:50 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1795- Richmond Map</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2410746477</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Enclosed land, bound by hedges, accounted for 80% of the total land area.<br>Of these 51,800 vergees, 20% were orchards, primarily apples.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-06 14:27:25 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>2014-Introduction of Manx Loaghtan Sheep to the island</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2411911000</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>These grazers were introduced to help land management. They are similar to the historic breed of multihorn Jersey Sheep.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-07 09:27:16 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Decline in knitting</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2411911865</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>The industrial revolution brought the knitting industry to an abrupt end, and little or no tangible evidence now remains to prove its earlier existence.<br><br>The knitted stockings in the image are from the Museum's collections dating to the 1800s.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-07 09:28:04 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>2023- Rural Support Scheme</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2414291452</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><a href="https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/jsy/news/farmers-paid-more-growing-local-crops-under-new-scheme/#.Y5HflZ7P2Uk">Farmers paid more for growing local crops under new incentive scheme | Bailiwick Express Jersey</a></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2022-12-08 13:13:07 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2414291452</guid>
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         <title>La Faîs&#39;sie d&#39;Cidre (cidermaking festival)</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2434520918</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Celebrated annually&nbsp;in October<br><br>https://www.jerseyheritage.org/explore/find-a-place-to-visit/hamptonne-country-life-museum/</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2023-01-05 10:50:31 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Wasailling</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2434521337</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Celebrated in January in Jersey and southern England where cider making is important</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2023-01-05 10:51:10 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1649 Charles I letter concerning knitting</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2443619417</link>
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         <pubDate>2023-01-13 14:12:42 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2443619417</guid>
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         <title>2006- Jersey Jewel Tomato</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2443632906</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><a href="https://www.genuinejersey.je/news-features/jersey-jewel-tomatoes-are-the-pride-of-island/">Jersey Jewel tomatoes are the pride of Island | Genuine Jersey</a></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2023-01-13 14:22:53 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2443632906</guid>
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         <title>1981- Potato Blight</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2443645804</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Potato blight is one of the worst disease problems for the potato grower. It can wipe out the plants almost overnight and, worse still, it can infect neighbouring potato crops both on an allotment and any nearby commercial crop if adequate precautions are not taken. The Jersey Royal is a blight susceptible variety.<br><br>1981 saw a disastrous outbreak of potato blight Jersey. The President of the Agricultural and Fisheries Committee, Bernard Binnington, told the States that “My Department has written to all registered growers of maincrop potatoes urging them to continue to apply routine treatments of anti-blight spray and offering advice on disease control measures."</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2023-01-13 14:32:30 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>2011- the first beef from the Jersey-Angus cattle went on sale. </title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2443647117</link>
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         <pubDate>2023-01-13 14:33:26 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>2020- Wheat Growing the old fashioned way</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2443650523</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><a href="https://www.ruraljersey.co.uk/back-to-the-future/">Back to the Future - RURAL (ruraljersey.co.uk)</a></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2023-01-13 14:36:02 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Hedgeveg stalls gain popularity</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2443673272</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><a href="https://hedgeveg.je/">Home » Jersey Hedge Veg</a></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2023-01-13 14:53:53 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>2014- Protection of Jersey Milk</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2443687513</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-27222702">EU protection sought for Jersey Milk - BBC News</a></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2023-01-13 15:05:07 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1670-10,000 pairs of stockings were sold in St Helier each week</title>
         <author>JHEducation</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/JHEducation/2yp6le014w4g09x8/wish/2445586572</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>They were bought by merchants for export.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2023-01-16 12:17:01 UTC</pubDate>
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