Groix plots

While most men were sailors in those days, women cultivated the land. Following the 1950 land reforms, the island changed landscape but here and there, some remains of its surprising land allocation can still be seen. At the time, the unit of land was the “furlong” (sillon in French), comprised of a long strip of curved land, 3 to 4 metres wide, and measuring around one hundred square metres.  The furlongs were grouped by crop, mainly wheat, barley, oats and potatoes.