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  • From: Claude Genest <genest@together.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] New tool !!
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 12:21:18 -0400

Do you have a pic of this Kama of yours ( couldn't find it at hidatools.com - wasn't loading....)

I myself am preparing to unveil my new prototype tool : The Canmurai - Candian Samurai !!

It's a modified hockey stick / mini scythe - I've been trying various duct-taped versions and am actually having a proper version forged today....

A hockey stick in hand is for me, the most enjoyable, natural thing - also, the height of the stick avoids bending down, while the hook makes it versatile and the length of the blade ( japanese rice knife blade) is just the right size to weed whack in my food forest around my fruit trees...... I can't wait to try the official version !

Claude


On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 12:18 PM, Rick Valley wrote:

Funny, I was just kama-ing C-thistle last eve for a compost layer since the
flowers were budding up---

Hast tried turning hogs on it in the spring? I'd imagine the stolons?
rhizomes? would be delicious hog fodder, and it tends to associate with
Agropyron repens, Quack grass, which likewise likes hardpan and is superior
hog fodder.

The bloom is nectar rich.
Pure stands can be scythed (before seeding, por supuesto!) to make a
SUPERIOR compost.

My friends in BC told me it is called "California Thistle" ??

Reminds me of the story- farming neophytes on Orcas Is. had beaucoup thistle
on their land, and read that burros LOVE thistle. So they adopted a feral
burro from the non-native eradication program (when equids used to be native
in the N. Am. West and they are trying to re-establish the Condor and NEED
megafaunal carcasses- go figger!)
I digress- but OF COURSE they didn't have El Burrito until the thistles-
bull and Canada and native- had begun flowering, nor did they have a
rotational paddock system set up.
And burros LOVE thistles.

and seed them about quite effectively.

And they had the broadest tallest purest stand of well-spined thistle you
ever hope to see.

So they sold the land.

-Rick

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