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It was not a communal endeavor in the way the later Soviet colchozes were. In Medieval times every farmer either owned his own land or leased it from the local lord or convent and as a rule, worked it by himself with his family, and with his farmhands if he could afford them.

Some activities were done communally, though: the use of expensive tools or draught horses might be shared amongst neighbors. And then as now, getting in the harvest could be under a lot of time pressure is worse weather was expected. With mechanical tools a thing of the far-away future, farmers would help each other out if possible with getting the harvest in.

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