The Scything Handbook: Learn How to Cut Grass, Mow Meadows and Harvest Grain by Hand - Couverture rigide

Miller, Ian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0993389244 ISBN 13 : 9780993389245

Editeur : Filbert Press, 2016

Synopsis

A scythe is one of the most elegant and efficient hand tools available. It is ideal for harvesting many types of crops and beats a strimmer hands down in time tests. There is a graceful, rhythmic quality to scything that once mastered can provide the ultimate mind and body workout. In this book, Ian Miller will teach you how to scythe from scratch. You will learn about assembly, perfecting the stroke, keeping the blade sharp, uses and aftercare. A scythe can be used for mowing grass, harvesting grain, and cutting back wildflower meadows without disrupting wildlife. The hay and straw can be used for mulching and composting the garden or for food and bedding for household pets while small grains can used for bread-making and feeding poultry. The Scything Handbook will delight all gardeners, allotmenteers and smallholders who are tired of their noisy, heavy, fuel-dependent machines and looking for better ways to take care of themselves and their land.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ian Miller followed a career in music with a degree in agroecology. He learned how to scythe during an internship on a biodynamic farm in Austria and never looked back. He worked for Seed Savers Exchange in Iowa and now manages a small farm where he grows his own grain for bread-making and makes hay by hand.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Filbert Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0993389244
• ISBN 13: 9780993389245
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Buchpark GmbH; gpsr@buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne