Growing up, most of our pastures had herds of cattle or a small band of horses on them. But one small pasture, close to home, was occupied by old steel and antique iron. To me, it was an imaginary ...

MEDINA, Ohio -- When Medina County was still very rural, tractors and other farm equipment could be seen almost everywhere. That included one day in 1954 when there was a huge parade through Medina ...

The machine was an old stationary hay baler. It used to sit out in the hayfield, a natural resting spot for old stationary hay equipment, but Dad pulled it up closer to the yard, much to my ...

OWASCO - They were making hay in the haze at the Ward O'Hara Agricultural Museum Saturday morning as the sunshine didn't quite get through. It was the seventh Draft Horse and Hay Day presented there ...

For centuries, farmers cut and moved hay by hand. Then horses made the work quicker and a bit easier. In the early 1900s, machines like the automatic baler changed everything. At Big Spring Farm Days, ...

MEDINA, Ohio -- The organizers of Thursday’s Hay Baler Parade are tweaking the route to circumvent road construction in the city. The re-enactment of the 1954 Hay Baler parade, sponsored by the Medina ...

Let's start this off with a statement of fact about my opinion: I greatly dislike heat. Now, given the rough winter we endured what seems like a minute ago, I've mostly kept quiet with my complaints ...

The hay the animals helped make on Sunday is for them to eat. It's not all old-fashioned tradition on Russell's farm, however. He's just started a blog (www.marjorieellenfarm.typepad.com) to tell ...

ATLANTA — It’s not every day that elementary school students get to inspect quilt stitching, touch a bale of hay on an old-fashioned baler or hear folk music on traditional instruments. But they get ...

Charles Stout has a soft spot for old tractors. In the late 1980s, Stout began dabbling a bit in the antique business, buying and restoring an old tractor here and there. When he retired from Union ...