Lazy bed
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Lazy bed is a traditional method of arable cultivation, often used for potatoes. Rather like cord rig cultivation, parallel banks of ridge and furrow are dug by spade although lazy beds have banks tha
Lazy beds, Inishbofin
Old lazybeds on North Harris
Old lazybeds on Ensay
Lazybeds on Inishglora
Foot plough
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The foot plough is a type of plough used like a spade with the foot in order to cultivate the ground.
Lazy bed
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Illustration of Andean farmers using a chaki taklla "footplough", by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, 1616.
A farmer using the chaki taklla in the village of Hatunqulla, Puno Region, Peru