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Scythe haymaking video
I made this video during the Scythe Improvers and peening courses I ran in August with clips of the group learning to mow in the orchard, hammering and cutting weeds on a slope. It also includes the h… more →
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Making Hay
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wrote 4 days ago: Because of the wet spring, followed by warm sunny days, the meadow areas grew really fast and then t … more →
13/12/12: 12 days of Christmas
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wrote 5 months ago: Here is the second in my 12 days of Christmas photo posts – things that I associate with a NZ … more →
Scythe haymaking video
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wrote 6 months ago: I made this video during the Scythe Improvers and peening courses I ran in August with clips of the … more →
Stock that is good enough to drink
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wrote 8 months ago: Vegetable stock I mean! Seriously. Why would we cook with a vegetable stock that was not good enough … more →
Every schoolboy's dream
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wrote 8 months ago: With apologies to Mr. Stewart, if this hadn’t been the title to this post it would have been M … more →
Moonrise
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wrote 8 months ago: Yes, I know it’s been done and I know that images such as this appear on the web regularly but … more →
Making hay (today)
wrote 9 months ago: The crop isn’t plentiful but there’s a saying around here concerning hay of low quantity … more →
Autumn IS on the way……..
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wrote 9 months ago: I lay in bed this morning listening to the call of the birds….well to be precise I listened to Robin … more →
Make hay while the sun doesn't shine!
wrote 9 months ago: This week we started our annual grass cut at the High land of Orcombe, Exmouth. To get to the area w … more →
Making hay while the sun shines
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wrote 9 months ago: There is nothing that says Summer quite as much as the smell of newly mown grass You can just see Os … more →
summer days
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wrote 9 months ago: At last we have sunshine and it feels as though summer has arrived. There are vases of flowers throu … more →
Two Days Heavy Rain - Saturday July 1903
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wrote 10 months ago: It has rained heavily for two days. Did we not say that the hay cutters would tempt the rain? An arr … more →
pretty seasonal
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wrote 10 months ago: We woke up to a bright warn sunny day and decided to believe. To trust that the wet days had come to … more →
Dawn Mowing at Brantwood House
wrote 10 months ago: Time, once again, for the ‘dawn mowing’ at Brantwood, former home of John Ruskin. Last … more →
Hay making continues
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wrote 10 months ago: Although we have harvested all our first-cut grass hay, others in the area who work much larger piec … more →
Walkabout on the Farmy
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wrote 10 months ago: Taking stock on a lovely summer day. Kupa was inadvertantly locked in the chook house and after spen … more →
Hay making 101
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wrote 11 months ago: Perhaps you might like to see a bit more of what it takes to harvest dry grass hay? These images wer … more →
The story of N
wrote 11 months ago: Two grass fields – on the left with nitrogen and on the right, without We have two grass field … more →
Hey Day
wrote 11 months ago: All the tractors have been out lowering: making hay whist the sun shines. Winskill’s coming on apace … more →
