For centuries, farmers cut and moved hay by hand. Then horses made the work quicker and a bit easier. In the early 1900s, machines like the automatic baler changed everything. At Big Spring Farm Days, ...

The old expression, “Let’s make hay while the sun shines,” comes from our rural past when farms took advantage of the early summer months to harvest hay. Before the age of the internal-combustion ...

We’ve used a number of ways to harvest hay for our animals. All on them have been on the cheap. We own no hay fields, but that hasn’t stopped us from harvesting small grass plots and the occasional ...

Harvest time is community time, a time to gather and reap the bounty of a good crop. Tomatoes are a bumper crop this year, cucumbers and zucchini follow in abundance. In the past salt marsh hay would ...