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  • From: "Scott Pittman" <scott@permaculture.org>
  • To: "'permaculture'" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Make Your Own Broadfork Garden Tool - Do It Yourself- MOTHER EARTH NEWS
  • Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:49:08 -0600

I am a great fan of the broad fork and have used a Johnnies 727 broad fork
for years. It allowed me to retire/sell my rototiller. Easy to use and
very efficient; I use it when I put my garden to bed and when I wake it up
in the spring.

I prefer the Johnnies design to the one shown in Mother Earth News as the
handles are aligned in plane with the tines making it much more stable when
you need to jump up on the cross bar to get depth in hard soil.

The minimal soil disturbance is a primary result of using a broad fork and
you get the same aeration, improved soil tilth, better percolation, and
deeper root and worm penetration as from double digging.

Scott Pittman


"The real proof of intelligence is demonstrating that you understand
how to integrate living systems together so that everybody's life is
improved in the whole food web. The landscapes are littered with
burned out farms and burned out rivers and burned out oceans -- that
is not any display of intelligence. Pay your farmworkers fair wages,
regardless of their species, and grow brains instead of chemical
industry fortunes." -- Lion Kuntz

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lawrence London
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 11:16 AM
To: permaculture
Subject: [permaculture] Make Your Own Broadfork Garden Tool - Do It
Yourself- MOTHER EARTH NEWS

Make Your Own Broadfork Garden Tool - Do It Yourself - MOTHER EARTH NEWS
http://www.motherearthnews.com/do-it-yourself/broadfork-garden-tool-zmaz80ma
zraw.aspx#axzz2Ooskod00

Make Your Own Broadfork Garden Tool

* Prepare the soil in your raised bed in one-sixth the time using a U-bar,
also known as a broadfork garden tool. *
By the MOTHER EARTH NEWS editors
March/April 1980

Read more:
http://www.motherearthnews.com/do-it-yourself/broadfork-garden-tool-zmaz80ma
zraw.aspx#ixzz2Or7OSKo2
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