Last week we finished our biggest, latest in the season, and most stressful hay harvest ever! This year we cut five fields, producing 1080 bales, and we had to wait until mid-September for a decent spell of weather. The hay was cut on September 6th, and baled a week later on the 13th and 14th, then we brought it all in on the 17th, 18th and 19th, all of which were superb hay-days with hot sunshine and a dry easterly wind. We are all still exhausted, and have coined a new term, "hay-ngover"...
Hay is now available for purchase through our farm shop, open Monday to Saturday, 10am till 5pm. Hay is £4 per bale.
One of our fields wasn't cut last year, so the hay from that one is coarser than from the others, therefore we recommend coarse bales for seating and bedding, and fine bales for feeding - the two types are piled together due to space limitation but are easy to tell apart.
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Hay bales in Far Field South, one of the five fields we cut this year.
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Huge thanks to everybody who helped with the hay this year, especially the 11 local volunteers, 5 WWOOF volunteers, and 2 members of staff who did all the heavy lifting! Not to mention Clive for cutting the hay at what turned out to be the perfect time...
