What a summer to try and make hay in! With many thanks to Clive Williams, our local hay contractor, we somehow managed to pick a perfect weather window, cutting on the 19th August, baling on the 22nd and 23rd, and bringing it all in to the barn by the 24th, at which point it started raining again!! This year we have 915 bales from 4 fields, and it is excellent quality, priced at only £3.50 per bale, available through our farm shop, which is open Monday to Saturday 10am till 5pm.
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Clive lining up hay in Far Field Middle ready for baling.
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The small-baler ready for action.
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Luke and Alyson loading bales onto the trailer.
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Nico and Lilly in Carn Field with another trailer-load of hay (we had 16 of these).
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Unloading hay back in the farmyard.
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Stacking into the open barn ready for sale.
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Many thanks to everybody who helped with this year's harvest (always one of the hottest itchiest most tiring jobs of the year) - Luke, Alice, Ross, Jose, Hajin, Stephen, Haniel, Nico, Lilly, Yerin, Alyson - and probably others too!
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