### id263560070 most Medieval taxpayers owned land > But it is also possible these workers took on agricultural work during harvest season as a way to supplement their earnings coming from their other activity. Medieval city dwellers often owned small pieces of land they rented out or cultivated in their free time. In the town of Castelnaudary, near Toulouse, 95% of the fourteenth-century taxpaying inhabitants owned at least some agricultural land. The rate was 91.5% in the fifteenth century. Most of these landowners held very small estates (less than 2 hectares), which would not have sufficed to sustain their families. Nonetheless, these lands did offer the guarantee of some sustenance to their owners. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fr20h064qtc0bz0hy325rpcz) - [[Urban Agriculture in the Middle Ages by Lucie Laumonier#id263560070 most Medieval taxpayers owned land|View in Vault]]