However , sometimes groups of individuals or even entire villages did the work and the results were divided into strips and shared among tenant farmers .
Usually it was done by one farmer who hacked out a clearing from the woodland , leaving a hedged field .
Sometimes groups of individuals or even entire villages did the work and the results were divided into strips and shared among tenant farmers .
Usually it was done by one farmer who hacked out a clearing from the woodland , leaving a hedged field .