Common Tasks for Middle-Aged workers

Common Tasks for Middle-Aged workers 

January & February - work indoors repairing hunting nets, sharpening tools, making utensils - on mild days work outdoors gather firewood, prune vines and mend fences.

March - work in the fields,  plowing and cultivating. 
April - clean ditches, pruning trees, fixing sheds, hauling timber, and repairing roofs

May -  sheep cleaning and shearing,  planting and field maintenance

June - mowing hay crop and raking it into piles

July - harvest grains, bundle sheaves, weeding gardens

August - threshing and winnowing of grains, grinding of grains into flower

September - fruits picked and dried or stored, grapes picked and pressed for juice and wine

October - gather nuts, roots, berries, and mushrooms, fields plowed and empty fields sown with winter wheat, repairing and cleaning equipment.

November - firewood gathered, split, and stacked for themselves and the lord, pigs and cows slaughtered and meat smoked,  flex and hemp processed to make thread and rope

December - trim trees, grape vines pruned, and hunting

Adapted from Nikola-Lisa, W. "Till year's good end: a calendar of Medieval Labor/" 1997
(Great Children's book on middle ages.)