WWOOFer Clare (from near Auburn, Alabama) helps take down a portion of our winter cover crop, to make room for tomatoes. Feeling green, and curious, we use a scythe, the tool that fed much of the world until the 19th century and the advent of horse-drawn (and later, steam and internal combustion engine-driven) reapers and threshers. It makes quick work of our 30 x 60 foot plot. The challenge, we discover, is to cut low enough so as not to leave a lot of stubble, but high enough to avoid scraping the ground and dulling the blade.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
cover (crop) girl
WWOOFer Clare (from near Auburn, Alabama) helps take down a portion of our winter cover crop, to make room for tomatoes. Feeling green, and curious, we use a scythe, the tool that fed much of the world until the 19th century and the advent of horse-drawn (and later, steam and internal combustion engine-driven) reapers and threshers. It makes quick work of our 30 x 60 foot plot. The challenge, we discover, is to cut low enough so as not to leave a lot of stubble, but high enough to avoid scraping the ground and dulling the blade.
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