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Under this system, peasants lived on a manor presided over by a lord or a bishop of the church. Peasants paid rent or labor services to the lord in exchange for their right to cultivate the land. Fallowed land, pastures, forests, and wasteland were held in common. The open field system required cooperation among the peasants of the manor. It was gradually replaced by individual ownership and management of land.
----- Most serfs ate mainly food they grew themselves. Some people of the serf class were townsfolk who bought their food, but most of this was locally grown. The most important single food item for serfs was bread. Grains also provided a basis for gruel and porridge, along with peas.eat eaten by peasants was poor cuts, the sorts of things people of higher station did not want. They ate chicken and poor cuts of pork. They ate a small amount of mutton and very little beef. In many places, sumptuary laws forbade their eating good cuts, or even meat that had not been chopped.