Haying with Draft Horses at Full and By Farm

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I'd like to introduce you to one of the lifestyle luxuries we're able to enjoy as year-round residents in Essex, New York. Please meet Sara Kurak and James Graves of Full and By Farm.

We pick up our farm share every Thursday evening, and Sara emails the farm members in the morning to let us know what to expect. The following is an excerpt from the Full and By Farm note for June 17, 2011:

"We are trucking right along this week—moving animals, planting crops, harvesting, weeding, cutting hay, cutting soap, building wagons, enjoying the moderately warm sunshine. This is our first year cutting our own hay and the learning and preparation curves have been steep. Given the uncertain weather predictions for the week and all of our new-to-us equipment we decided to cut one small field on Tuesday and get the process down before going for it whole hog. We took Abby and Lightning out on the horse-drawn mower, selecting the smallest field, but coincidentally the steepest and least rectangular. They took it on like champs, despite several problems with the mower, and the sneaking suspicion that lots of sharp scissors are following right at one's heels. James is out now tedding the field, we plan to rake, bale, pick-up and unload all TODAY."

I shot this short video with on my camera's video setting. The quality's not great, but it affords you an opportunity to come along for a horse drawn hay ride! Enjoy.

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