Pure nature - When to mow and how to use it? Mowing with a scythe, drying on racks - 50 recipes and instructions for cooking with hay, wellness, health, and small crafts. In natural gardens, sloped areas, and traditional orchards, grass is often still mowed by hand. But how do you mow with a scythe, and how do you sharpen and hone it? How is (also machine-mowed) grass properly dried? Those who want to harvest a small amount of high-quality hay will often still set up drying racks, which in the past were known as hay mounds, diemen, hay riders, and heinzen (hiefel), shaping the summer landscape. And those who use hay as feed for pets must understand the different needs of horses, rabbits, guinea pigs, as well as sheep and goats, wild animals, and cattle. A dedicated chapter, indeed a trending topic, is the use of hay in the kitchen: hay soup, pork roast on a bed of hay.