Sons Of The Soil — Ploughmen

What hidden treasures lie beneath the earth

Image by SiGarb — in Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons: Of a plough being pulled through the streets of Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, UK.

Plough Monday has come and gone with a whimper. It used to be the case that much mischief, merriment, and a good knees-up took place in rural areas celebrating one of the tools of the trade of the humble farm-worker, the plough — the very apparatus used to cultivate crops, creating and sustaining farming communities.