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== Architecture ==
Isolated in the countryside (as Sant'Ambrogio, Guzzina or Occhiate) or unified in a rural agglomeration (as Baraggia and San Damiano), the farms were the core of peasant lives. Those farms in BrugherioThey had closed courts and the characteristics of the farms on the plains north of Milan, where the yard was intended to link functions and had a central role in the agricultural processing (as happened for example in the Po-valley companies). Around the courtyard, usually very large, there were opened four bodies of building: two porches on the ground floor, topped by a railing onto which the rooms of the upper floor, are residential; the third with stables and barns; and the fourth was originally made up of small rooms used as latrines. The houses were so arranged: in the ground floor there were the kitchen, the pantry, the closets and the living room, while the bedrooms were upstairs. At the center of the courtyard was the well for water<ref name="luoghi">{{cita libro | Luciana | Tribuzio Zotti | Brugherio: luoghi memorabili | 1987 | Parole Nuove | Brugherio}}</ref><ref name="mancini">{{cita libro | Manuela | Mancini | Brugherio: presente e passato | 1996 | Swan | Milano}}</ref>.
== Tipo di agricoltura ==
In the territory of Brugherio, agricultural property was mostly small and divided, even if there was some examples of large single owner, at least until the Napoleonic period. Polyculture (wheat, corn, beans, potatoes) prevailed, intended mainly for personal consumption rather than for sale.<ref name=luoghi/><ref name=mancini/> The area was also famous for the production of wine and, from the mid-eighteenth century, it was spread the mulberry growing: the mulberry trees, which were planted on the edge of the field, as not sacrificing other crops needed to feed silkworms, were given by the owner to the tenant farmers to work together the land. To the breeding of silkworms were devoted mostly women and children. The explosion of silkworm raised up on the territory numerous mills: the first ones were in Baraggia and Moncucco.<ref name="documenti">{{cita libro | Luciana | Tribuzio Zotti | Brugherio nei documenti | stampa 1986 | Musicografica Lombarda | Brugherio}}</ref>
Sul territorio di [[Brugherio]] la proprietà agricola era per lo più piccola e frazionata, anche se vi è qualche esempio di grande unico proprietario, almeno fino al [[età napoleonica|periodo napoleonico]]. Prevaleva la policoltura ([[Triticum|frumento]], [[Zea mays|granturco]], [[Phaseolus vulgaris|fagioli]], [[Solanum tuberosum|patate]]), destinata prevalentemente al consumo personale e alla vendita.<ref name=luoghi/><ref name=mancini/>
== Farmhouses ==
Il territorio era inoltre rinomato per la produzione di vino e, dalla metà del [[XVIII secolo]], si diffuse la [[Morus (botanica)|gelsicoltura]].
I gelsi, che venivano piantati ai margini dei campi in modo da non sacrificare le altre coltivazioni, servivano ad alimentare i bachi da seta, che venivano dati dal padrone ai [[mezzadria|mezzadri]] insieme ai terreni da lavorare. All'allevamento dei bachi si dedicavano per lo più le donne e i bambini. L'esplodere della [[bachicoltura]] fece sorgere sul territorio numerose [[filanda|filande]]: le prime a [[Cassina Baraggia|Baraggia]] e a [[Moncucco di Monza|Moncucco]].<ref name=documenti>{{cita libro | Luciana | Tribuzio Zotti | Brugherio nei documenti | stampa 1986 | Musicografica Lombarda | Brugherio}}</ref>
== Le cascine ==
=== Bindellera ===
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