> I want to buy a scythe. To cut a very small lawn with. Who sells a > decent, but reasonably-priced one? Smith & Hawken and A.M. Leonard sell a scythe with a straight snath (lightweight, strong & easy to use) and a grass & grain blade that is thin, long and can easily be sharpened razor-sharp. This tool is perfect for cutting lawns. It _can_ remove weeds/grass right down to the sod. It's fairly easy to maintain the proper stance and swinging motion to cut your grass to a consistant height and in regular arcs that blend together evenly. A wonderful tool, indespensible for the rural dweller and suburban gardener alike. london@sunSITE.unc.edu - Agricultural Hand Tool Sources Request a catalog from: Johnny's Selected Seeds Foss Hill Road Albion, Maine, 04910 Customer service: 1-207-437-4301 They supply EARTHWAY and PLANET, Jr. seeders and will, on request give you information on suppliers of other seeders (i.e. a small hand-carried corn/bean seeder. You may want to hybridyze the EW and the P, Jr. when planting small seeds in rough terrain. An organic vegetable grower North Carolina has successfully done this. - >Whole Earth "Ecolog" mentioned five tool suppliers for farm and garden >supplies; my hunch would be try Lehman's Hardware and Appliances, >their catalog is $2.00 from PO Box 41, 4779 Kidron Rd., Kidron OH 44636; >or Cumberland's, catalog $3.00 from rt. 3 box 81, Crossville TN 38555, and >they have a telephone: 615-484-8481. - A.M. Leonard 241 Fox Drive P.O. Box 816 Piqua, Ohio, 45356 1-800-543-8955 1-800-433-0633 fax Mostly tree maintenance and nursery equipment, plus miscellaneous excellent gardening/landscaping tools/supplies eye hoes, scythes - Mellingers Ohio similar to Leonard - Forestry Suppliers, Inc. P.O. Box 8397 205 West Rankin St. Jackson, Mississippi, 39204 "Quality Forestry, Engineering and Environmental Equipment, Shipped Worldwide" tools, equipment and supplies for the forestry industry - Langenbach "A Collection of the World's Finest Hand Tools" P.O. Box 453 Blairstown, N.J., 07825 Toll Free: 1-800-362-1991 English-made high quality spades, spade forks, forks and much else Excellent! - Smith and Hawken "Tools of the Trade - A Complete Source For the Organic Gardener" Orders: 2 Arbor Lane, Box 6900 Florence, Kentucky, 41022-6900 1-800-776-3336 General info: 25 Corte Madera Mill Valley, California, 94941 1-415-383-2000 Also excellent! you may need to ask them what tools they have for sale that are not listed in their catalogue, held-over stock offered in out-of-date ones - i.e. the 4"X7" Japanese field hoe (grub-type eye hoe using 1 3/4" X 54" handle) they used to offer, an indispensible tool! - The Cook's Garden "Seeds and Supplies for the New American Kitchen Garden" P.O. Box, 535 Londonderry, Vermont, 05148 Offers the Korean "HO-MI" hand cultivator (curved trowel/cultivator), well-designed and effective - Necessary Trading Co. One Nature's Way New Castle, Virginia, 24127-0305 FAX - 703/864-5186 Phone: 1-703-864-5103 "Natural Solutions for Farm, Home and Garden" Wide range of supplies, books, fertilizers, tools and equipment - catalogue headings include: books, composting equipment & supplies, soil testing equipment & supplies, cover crop seeds, fertilizers (their largest offering), pest management supplies and equipment, wild bird supplies, animal care supplies and miscellaneous hand tools. A major supplier, along with Zook & Ranck and Fertrell, for organic farmers and market growers in the Eastern U.S. - HARMONY FARM SUPPLY [CAT - $2 deduct. from] P.O. Box 451 [first order] Graton, CA 95444 PEACEFUL VALLEY FARM SUPPLY [CAT - $2 deduct. from] P.O. Box 2209 [first order] Grass Valley, CA 95945 You might also call the folks at ATTRA (Appropriate Technology for Rural Areas) at 1-800-346-9140. This free information service funded by the USDA might have some other names & addresses for you. - E.G. GEIGER 1-800-4GEIGER supplier of tools to the trade -