haying time

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haying time - the season for cutting and drying and storing grass as fodder

time of year, season - one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions; "the regular sequence of the seasons"

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Haying time and hog killings were two of my favorite events, probably because of the social aspects and great home cookin' associated with these activities.

Honoring the past with functionality

Because in most years we get a lot of rain in haying time I made a silage wagon from the bottom part of a dismantled lawn sweeper.

This Canadian homesteader loves her Deere

across the fields of kale: ("Autumn"); friends who "smelt the meadow, / The cows, the grass, the ground, / And who heard the sound of churning / As the brown horse clopped around" ("My Mates"); haying time, when "The towering wagons now can barely / Drive in through the great barn doors" ("At Haying Time"); but also cattle-feeding time, walking a plank across a stream, meadows with fragrant clover, the bent trees around a churchyard defending the dead against the autumn storms.