Haymaking

Its nice to think about summer, isn’t it?

Is anyone interested in hay-making the old fashioned way, using small old-fashioned machinery, or even scythes? We don’t have any machinery, and we don’t know much about it.

We have a kind of folk-memory that people actually enjoyed the back-breaking midsummer work in the hay-fields. Judging by the number of old beer bottles we still find in the stone walls, it was not all bad.

We are interested in finding out more, as about the hand-tools and the honing and peening or whatever.