June 08

volia last bale on top!!!
Tea break

Covering the stack as we work forward, in case of freak rain storms
Going down the lane to hand milk the cows, revealed Daisy had given birth toa small black female calf ( father Lancelot our highland bull). She was already standing and busy sucking at Daisy's full udder.

We're nowin the middle of haying, Ursula got rushed off to hospital having got something impaled in her leg. Having got to the hospital at 6:00pm it was not until 1am they manged to get it out, as in had gone very deep - some 2cm or so into her leg. It turned out to be a big piece of hawthorn some 41/2cm long!!!

so Ursula now out of action, as she limping around on one foot, butshe enjoying siting down watching us work
, moving bales around. Starting haying
hay stake in the making , were building the stack onto the side of last years hay,you can see the difference, last year hay is brown , as in- this years hay, we have baled faster and brought it in from the field quicker, to keepthe balesnice and green with maxi nutritional value
Ecoferme members working hard with the help of a couple of volunteers.Its defiantly a good way to keep fit all this bale
lifting and throwing!


loading bales on the field/ one field that has just been wind rowed