Making Hay
In the Spring and Summer, our animals enjoy grazing in our pastures around campus. Two to three times a year, Cummings School’s farm crew harvests grass from across the acres of fields to make hay. This hay provides feed to our animals on the farm all winter long.
Photographer Jeff Poole joined Farm Manager Stephanie Bertrand and the farm crew this spring to harvest another round of grass for winter hay.
After the grass is cut, the hay is left to dry, then “raked” into rows and ready for the round baler to pick up.
The hay is fed into a round baler, which, like its name, takes the dried hay and rolls it into a round bale, then drops the bales back onto the ground.
A tractor then collects the round bales from the field and transports them to storage barns to keep the hay dry.
These hay bales are high-quality feed for our animals.