August Newsletter from Scythe Cymru

Posted on by Michelle Laine

And so we approach Summer’s End.

It often feels like we get to the end of summer before I am really expecting it.

And here we are again! The hay barns are stuffed full, we’ve built a mighty outdoor hay stack for the overflow and there is a tang of Autumn in the air.

In this Newsletter:

September Scythe Course

One last chance to Learn to Scythe with us in 2025

Thanks to a good hay making season, we have enough grass left to run one more scythe course on the meadows of Dyfed Permaculture Farm.

Join us on Tuesday 9th September for an enjoyable, hands-on day that will teach you want you need to know to get mowing.

For a sneak peak of the day, take a look at this video of Phil teaching his classic “Shuffle, Shuffle, Cut” earlier in the season.

Book a Scythe Course

If you live further away, the farm welcomes overnight camping in the meadows.

The Mighty Outdoor Hay Stack

Pictures of the stack being built

We have been lucky in our corner of West Wales to have had just enough rain to keep the grass growing combined with enough sun to make the hay making flow.

We pretty much filled the barns with the crop from our early top meadow so most of the crop from Cae Mari Jones has gone onto an outdoor haystack. 

We have built outdoor stacks before, mostly of coarse late-cut hay to use for bedding. Last year’s stack was so successful, and so enjoyed by the cows, that we have raised our game this year and used higher quality hay with the aim of feeding most of it.

Here are a series of photos of it being built.

OK it’s not huge by historical standards, but it’s the biggest one we’ve built to date!

One thought on “August Newsletter from Scythe Cymru”

  1. I would take my hat of to you regarding the haystack, only the sun is still strong in Portsoy,
    and I have a bald head. Looking forward to the arrival of my scythe, so I can get to grips with my garden.

    Seamus

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