One of the most important jobs on the calendar for parish smallholders and farmers was making hay. The Art of drying long meadow grass when the time was right at the end of June or start of July when goodness was hopefully just right in the grass and weather was on their side to dry it on the fields. The making of hay goes back to when mankind first decided to try and feed and over winter farm livestock to feed the family or tribe and the greater commuinity .
And this practice which is eons old still goes on to this very day in 2024 in the parish but now the scythe to cut and the pickle to turn by hand has given way to the more modern machinery which started during the industrial revolution at the end of the 1700s. The huge machinery is even now a world away from a horse-drawn finger bar used in the late 1800s up until the 2nd world war even in that short span of time.
