As a farm boy, it is hard for me to walk by the freshly mowed campus meadows that Elena talks about without fond memories (read - I'm glad I don't have to do it anymore) of hay production on our dairy farm in Wisconsin as a young lad.
While there was a lot of physical work involved in 'making hay' when I was a boy - with my main tasks being unloading the hay bales (35 - 50 lbs each), I was shocked today when I saw the cut hay from Elena's campus meadows being rolled down the hill by two guys with rakes. They were getting it ready for the loose hay harvestor that we saw the other night on a picnic near the meadows.
While the Swiss are highly technically advanced in nearly every aspect of their country, it seems that the best technology for our campus meadows still seems to be good old elbow grease.
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