Category Archives: Scytherspace

Mowing wheat at vintage weekend

Posted on August 24, 2010 by stevetomlin

This week I’m getting ready to mow wheat in Lancashire as part of Whitey’s Working Weekend.  The hosts, Margaret & Andrew Webster, came to the Cumbria Scythe Festival with their family to see if they could find someone with a … Continue reading →

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Rake making with Brian

Posted on August 9, 2010 by stevetomlin

Once your grass is cut you need to do something with it.   Hopefully that means enough warm dry weather to make sweet-smelling hay for the winter but at the least cleaning it from the meadow so as not to … Continue reading →

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Cumbrian Scythe Festival 2010

Posted on July 20, 2010 by stevetomlin

After who knows how many weeks without rain, fears the grass would all be burnt off and the commencement of a lakes-wide hosepipe ban, the first Cumbrian Scythe Festival took place amid pouring rain. Nonetheless, 18 hardy souls turned up … Continue reading →

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