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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>]

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Date:   Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:35:07 -0500
From:   Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
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Garden Tools - Lawrence London - Picasa Web Albums
https://picasaweb.google.com/103223907782626104592/GardenTools

Biointensive Gardening Guide and Farm&  Garden Hand Tool Sourcelist

http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/documents/gardening-hand-tools.faq

Saturday, December 17, 2011 Revision
Gardening Hand Tool Sourcelist
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/documents/gardening-hand-tools.faq

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Biointensive Gardening Guide and Farm & Garden Hand Tool Sourcelist
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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 below, 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.
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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 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.
Don't forget to fabricate some yourself in your shop or contract with 
local craftsmen (woodworkers, blacksmiths, welders, machinists)

Biointensive Gardening and Handtool Sourcelist
http://biointensiveagriculture.blogspot.com/
biointensivegardening@gmail.com  <mailto:biointensivegardening@gmail.com>
Biointensive Gardening and Hand Tools
http://biointensivegardening.blogspot.com/
ecolandtech@gmail.com  <mailto:ecolandtech@gmail.com>

Garden Tools
https://picasaweb.google.com/dirt.4arm/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/dirt.4arm/GardenTools#5472487141395137746
and ending here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/dirt.4arm/GardenTools#5472487290264965282

Fukuoka.JPG



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