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Beekissed
Mountain Sage
That's a good heads up for folks....most everyone around here just does hay....I've never heard of or even seen anyone using herbicides in hay fields~costs too much and we don't have that much of a weed problem here. It's just not that important of a crop here as they are usually just feeding cattle and cattle will eat anything. It's a nonissue here.
Now, if folks were growing things like oats, wheat, etc. I could see them using herbicides and the straw from that harvest being tainted, but mostly here in WV there are no such crops...maybe over in OH. That's one reason I don't do straw much...even for bedding, as all bedding here winds up on the garden eventually.
Mulch hay is now in big rolls in the garden...the free stuff...and a few big rotten rolls on the truck and trailer, that's the stuff I paid $10 per for. Also tucked a few bags of leaves around those rolls as I went through town.
It was lovely just to lounge on all that hay as I talked with my brother and his GF, who brought the free stuff. I've always had a love affair with hay...sweet, soft, golden first cut and green, fragrant and wholesome second cut. Hay is just lovely to me!
I use it in my nest boxes, in the dog houses, to sit on around bonfires, I've had many a fond memories of it on hay rides and even some memories in barns that are best forgotten, but still sweetly remembered for the setting. There's nothing like the smell of fresh mowed hay in the fields. These wood chips have been pure murder on my knees and legs these past 3 yrs, so it will be so nice to get back to cushy, soft hay for kneeling upon.
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