Humble Beginnings

It is fascinating to begin to understand where farming and agriculture started to sprout into the sophisticated ordeal that it is today.  As the progress for farming begins to happen I am sure this spurs on new innovative ideas, which allow for people to start thinking outside of day to day operations.  Once their minds were capable of thinking of things outside of simple survival, the tools they used help to push them forward into the future.  As we see farming today very little mom & pop farms exist.  On a large level farming has been completely industrialized with the use of tools.  An aspect of these early Medieval villages I liked was the openness, and the sustainability of each village.  Life must have been tough, but at least they fed themselves, and others via taxes, and tithes.  Early Medieval Villages, although small and quite humble, seemed as though they would be very relaxing places to live.  Sounds as if the villages thrived on a close knit community of people working together to create crop to the best of their ability, I like that idea.  Perhaps not in the form of a farm but certain aspects do stand out.  Openness, sustainability, community, assistance, and a sense of purpose.  I believe this was quite a decent formula for good communities.