Rehoboth Farm

First Hay

Usually by Mother's Day the first hay is being cut here in Georgia.  This year it's a little late due to high heat and no rain.  Today it was 95 and dry, but as long as you kept the tractor moving it made it bearable.  

Each year we are blessed to be able to help an older friend rake and bale hay on his several hundred acre cow and grass farm.  Today marked the first of three or four crops for the season.

There is no way to describe the smell of freshly baled hay, it comes somewhere between honey and sugar cane.  After a full day with 60 to 70 bales in the field, the smell carries for several hundred feet all round.  This is also good because it tends to offset the smell of grease and diesel.