Posted on 09/19/2022 5:50:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
You’re not wrong:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bere_%28grain%29
But I couldn’t possibly add anything to Twatt.
The canny and thrifty Scots used materials that were cheap and plentiful in the land to fertilize their crops. Rocks.
Archeologists have found fields literally filled with rocks and made the obvious deductions.
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