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Garden and Farm Handtool Sourcelist & Biointensive Gardening Guide
Saturday, December 17, 2011 Revision

http://www.avantgeared.com/garden-and-farm-handtool-sourcelist-biointensive-gardening-guide
Gardening Hand Tool Sourcelist (mirror site)
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Biointensive Gardening Guide and Farm & Garden Hand Tool Sourcelist

Permanent Minimum-Till Biointensive Double-Dug Raised Bed Garden
Preparation and Handtool Information & Sourcelist

(work-in-progress - updated frequently)

[update: agriculture, permaculture, gardening & biodynamics bibliography
added (from books available through Amazon.com).

   - see following, near end of document:

A brief update for those needing quick access to tool sources; most of this
information is repeated further on in the document.

Over time, your most often used garden tools will likely be:

Austrian scythe,
hand sickles and machetes (different types from all over the world),
broadfork,
hand trowels and weeder/cultivators including Japanese, Korean and other
Asian versions,
various eye hoes (Germany, Austria, Japan, Portugal, Spain, Central
America),
English-style D-handled digging and garden spades, spade forks and digging
forks,
long handled sharp and flat point shovels,
seeding rakes (Dutch or German) of varying width and number and length of
tines,
forged steel heavy garden rakes,
pitchfork, compost fork,
manure forks or potato hoes of varying widths
(make an excellent one of these by bending the tines on a pitchfork,
indispensable for removing cut weeds from garden beds).

This document lists most mail order sources for these tools though many
have come online in the past five years which I need to add to this
sourcelist.

Don't forget to fabricate some yourself in your shop or contract with local
craftsmen (woodworkers, blacksmiths, welders, machinists).
Garden Tools

https://picasaweb.google.com/103223907782626104592/GardenTools#
The weed/manure rake/hoe/fork made out of a pitchfork can be seen, first
tool on the left,
in this series of photographs, starting here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/103223907782626104592/GardenTools#5472487141395137746
and ending here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/dirt.4arm/GardenTools#5472487290264965282

Here are new resources for serious tool enthusiasts and tool makers:
[the rest of the document follows with much information]
http://www.avantgeared.com/garden-and-farm-handtool-sourcelist-biointensive-gardening-guide