It's time to think about bringing home our winter supply of hay and storing it in the barn. We usually go to pick up the hay from the farm where we buy it the last week in September. The farm is about thirty minutes from our farm, which gives us thirty minutes to rest from loading the hay until unloading and stacking the hay in our barn. A huge job! I try to enlist as many family members with pick-up trucks and strong backs and arms as I can for this tiring feat. Having stacks and stacks of hay in the barn always gives me such a sense of satisfaction and security knowing the sheep will be fed throughout the long Vermont winter. Not to mention the pleasure of smelling the aroma from the fresh hay.
So in anticipation of the arrival of the hay, it was fall cleaning weekend in the barn. Rafters, walls and floors were swept, garden tools put back in their rightful places, and summer items stored away to make room for the hay. My husband and I went out to get wooden pallets to raise the hay up off the brick barn floor to avoid any moldy hay. We were lucky to get huge, sturdy over-sized pallets, just what we needed. It now looks like the boardwalk at Atlantic City in the barn without the hay on the pallets, but soon hay will be stacked on them and the pallets won't be seen until spring.
Why worry about hay ?
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