- January 31, 2000 Revision Gardening Hand Tool Sourcelist http://metalab.unc.edu/intergarden/gardening-hand-tools.faq http://metalab.unc.edu/permaculture/gardening-hand-tools.faq http://metalab.unc.edu/intergarden/orgfarm/tools/gardening-hand-tools.faq http://metalab.unc.edu/intergarden/orgfarm/gardening/gardening-faqs/gardening-hand-tools.faq ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/academic/agriculture/sustainable_agriculture/tools/gardening-hand-tools.faq This document may be freely copied. - This update includes new information on mail order of English Bulldog (Record-Bulldog) garden tools from companies in the USA. Until recently there has not been a source for them here; for those not familiar with Bulldog, they are lifetime tools and the best designed and fabricated and most durable of any in the world; Japanese and German brands are of equal quality and offer different types of tools not usually made in England (I am looking for sources for these if anyone knows of any). ============================== Gardening Hand Tool Sourcelist ============================== From: rick valley : Marugg Co. for scythes and Hida Tool Co. for Japanese gardening, carpentry and bamboo working tools 1-800-443-5512 They're a fine outfit, excellent service & the best quality - Japanese tools come in a huge range of quality. Hida is the Co. I get the Ebinata from, a hatchet-type tool I wrote up for the Activist once- great for mulching up trees. Another fine company is Bellota, out of the Basque country in Spain- I have a 10yr-old catalog and one eye hoe, beautifully forged of incredible steel- double-ended, a three-inch chisel & two 5/8 inch prongs on the other. They also manufacture in Venezuela. Bellota: Tel. 34-43-730-000. Fax 34-43-733-524. Expect Spanish, but they'd probably love it if you spoke Basque. ARS saws and pruners are also favorites of mine; a wholesale source of them and more, that'll lead you to a retail source is Barnel: (800) 877-9907 or Rick Valley, Rick Valley Northern Groves PO Box 1236, Philomath, OR 97370 Mobile-(541)602-1315, hm.& msg. (541)929-7152 Bamboo catalog $2 or at "Useful Bamboos and other plants - Permaculture education - Ecological design & consultation centering on water, landform and horticultural systems" - Broadforks or U-Bar Diggers: ---------------------------- Eliot Coleman's design sold by Johnny's Selected Seeds as "Johnny's Broadfork". $109.00. Description (edited) from Johnny's website: "Eliot Coleman design, Maine made. A remarkably light but strong 24" wide steel fork base with 10 1/2" long tines and 50" oiled ash handles. http://www.johnnyseeds.com/cgi-local/Minishopsql4.cgi?action=page&adver=other&partnumber=9677 (in the picture on the website it looks like it may have 5 or 6 tines) <> Peaceful Valley Farm Supply offers a very heavy steel alloy/non-rusting, tig-welded model which was written up in Taunton Press' "Kitchen Gardener" in an article about the author's favorite tools. PVFS calls this tool the "Deep Spader". The four pointed tines are 16" long; tool width is 18". The tine section is bolted to to the long handle made of 1" pipe. The Deep Spader weighs 30 pounds and costs $139.00. Peaceful Valley Farm Supply Toll free: 1-888-784-1722 PO BOx 2209 Grass Valley, Calif., 95945 530-272-4769 <> A.M. Leonard catalogue has a great cast broad fork for around $80.00 delivered. It is great for digging through compost, straw, etc; very well made and a dream to use (800) 543-8955. - Chillington Tools The Chillington Tool Co.Ltd., Bridge Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH16 1UA UK. Phone : + 1444 417 220 Fax : + 1444 457 662 "The prices seem pretty reasonable, and they do Mail Order. They're a set of tools where the blade is set at a right angle to the handle - used like a mattock, and very versatile, as you can dig, cut through roots, hoe etc. Whenever you see farm workers in the Developing World on TV, they're using this type of tool," - Japanese gardening tools: - Japanese KAMA scythes are of high-quality steel and come in a size to suit every need. Their knives (splitting bamboo etc) are excellent. For more information contact Matsumoto-san, a permaculture activist in Japan with good contacts with many local factories that make high quality tools, often by hand. His address is: Noboru Matsumoto 402 Shiyona-Zho Kasugai-Shi Aichi, Japan. Catherine Pawasarat (asaka@gol.com) should know his email address - Seeds of Change Bulldog Garden Tools (made in England at factory in Wigan, sold under the Record name) Seeds of Change® PO Box 15700 Santa Fe NM 87506 1-888-762-7333 Email address: gardener@seedsofchange.com http://st4.yahoo.com/seedsofchange/bulrectool.html Bountiful Gardens 1999 Main Catalog http://www.bountifulgardens.org/bgmain.htm -- Biointensive and organic -- garden seed and supplies Garden tools and supplies: http://www.bountifulgardens.org/toolmain.htm Spear & Jackson digging tools (D-handles fork & spade, other English & oriental tools Bill and Betsy Bruneau, Managers Bountiful Gardens 18001 Shafer Ranch Road, Willits, CA 95490-9626 USA voice/fax 707-459-6410 Email: bountiful@zapcom.net (C) Copyright 1999, Ecology Action of the Midpeninsula, Inc. dba Bountiful Gardens. Garden Tools of Maine http://members.aol.com/gtmaine RR2, Box 2208, Holden, Maine 04429 Phone: 888 271 2672 Fax: 888 271 2674 Email: gtmaine@aol.com - Hortus Ornamenti http://www.greenwich.co.uk/hortus/index.htm "Fine Gardening Tools Hortus Ornamenti prides itself on producing some of the finest quality hand made gardening tools and accessories available today. The designs are inspired by those of bygone eras, these are ideal gifts for the discerning gardener." Address: Hortus Ornamenti 23 Cleveland Road Chichester West Sussex PO19 2HF United Kingdom Telephone/Fax: +44(0)1243 782467 Email to fax: remote-printer.Hortus_Ornamenti@7.6.4.2.8.7.3.4.2.1.4.4.tpc.int - Lee Valley & Veritas http://www.leevalley.com "If you have ideas for new tools (either gardening or woodworking), or other recommendations, we would like to hear from you. You can reach us by mail at these addresses: USA & International We serve USA and international customers by mail order. Packages can be shipped by UPS ground to anywhere in continental USA. Packages to Alaska and Hawaii are shipped by UPS air. Lee Valley Tools Ltd. Mail Order Center 12 East River Street P.O. Box 1780, Ogdensburg, N.Y. 13669-6780 USA Canada We serve Canada by mail order and through our retail stores. See our store location maps for the store nearest you. Lee Valley Tools Ltd. Mail Order Center 1090 Morrison Drive P.O. Box 6295, Stn. J, Ottawa, Ontario K2A 1T4 Canada or by telephone at these numbers: USA 1-800-267-8735 Canada 1-800-267-8761 International 1-613-596-0350 or e-mail us at customerservice@leevalley.com - A. M. Leonard http://www.amleo.com Sales: (sales@amleo.com) Customer: Service (custserv@amleo.com) General Information: (info@amleo.com) To order call toll free number 24 hours a day at (800) 543-8955. Customer Service/Technical Assistance call 8:00am - 5:00pm EST at (800) 543-8955. Fax: 24 hours a day, toll free, at (800) 433-0633 A. M. Leonard, Inc. 241 Fox Drive Piqua, Ohio 45356-0816 Tree maintenance and nursery equipment, miscellaneous gardening/landscaping tools/supplies, eye hoes, scythes - Smith & Hawken http://www.smith-hawken.com http://st3.yahoo.com/smithandhawken "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 Customer Service: 1-800-776-5558 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! They now offer English Bulldog brand eye hoes; also a complete line of digging forks, digging spades, spade forks, border forks and border spades and straight snath scythe systems. = = Smith & Hawken and A.M. Leonard sell a scythe system with a straight wooden snath (lightweight, strong & easy to use) and an Austrian lightweight grass & grain blade that is thin, long and can easily be sharpened. This tool is perfect for cutting lawns. It _can_ remove weeds/grass right down to the ground. 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. Smith & Hawken sells a straight two-handled model while AM Leonard sells a slightly curved one with one handle (you grip the top of the handle with your other hand). It is possible that S & H no longer carries their model, but if they get enough requests fir it that might offer it again. = = Gardex http://www.gardexindia.com "Gardex offers the widest and most comprehensive range of agro/garden tools from India" "Gardex offers the widest and most comprehensive range of agro/garden tools from India. We can develop any model as per your requirement" - Marketing Office: 808, Antriksh Bhawan 22, Kasturba Ghandhi Marg New Delhi - 110001 (India) Tel. : (91 - 11) 3715431, 3722159 Fax. : (91 - 11) 3715096 E- Mail : sarat@gardexindia.com - Corporate Office: C- 7 Focal Point Jalandhar - 144 004 (India) Tel. : (91 - 181) 290889, 293890, 293891 Fax. : (91 - 181) 290562, 225581, E- Mail : corporate@gardexindia.com - Peaceful Valley Farm Supply http://www.groworganic.com Tel: (530) 272-4769 Fax: (530) 272-4794 OFFICE HOURS: Monday - Saturday 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. PST PEACEFUL VALLEY FARM SUPPLY P.O. Box 2209 Grass Valley, CA 95945 Spear & Jackson Tools + many other useful brands - Walt Nicke 1-978-887-3388 Walte Nicke's Gardentalk A Catalog of Fine Tools for Gardeners http://www.gardentalk.com - Seeds of Change P.O. Box 15700 3209 Richards Lane Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87506 1-888-762-7333 505-438-6529 gardener@seedsofchange,com Retail mail order sales of English Record/Bulldog garden tools: heavy duty digging fork and digging spade and many others - The Kinsman Co. Kinsman Garden Company, Inc. River Road P.O. Box 357 Point Pleasant, Pennsylvania, 18950 1-800-733-4146, 215-297-0890 (local) info & orders Fax: 215-297-0450 215-297-5613 wholesale Website: http://kinsmangarden.com Email: kinsmangarden@bux.com Retail mail order sales of English Record/Bulldog garden tools Kinsman carries a half dozen or so of the more popular English Bulldog tools under the Record name (Record now owns the Bulldog garden tool line). They have their own catalog with these and many other garden items listed: digging spade, border spade, digging fork, border fork, poachers spade (rabbiting tool - good for planting or transplanting), hand fork & trowel - Record Tool North American Distributor Record Tools, Inc. 1920 Clements Rd. Pickering, Ontario, Canada, L1W-3V6 (Canada #) 905-428-1077 (USA #) 716-842-1180 Record Tools, Inc. provides wholesale and retail outlets with a very wide array of Record/Bulldog garden tools. Call or write them for their garden tool catalog. - James Cooksons (Stockport) Ltd. Cheshire, U.K. http://www.cooksons.com Spear & Jackson, Bulldog (Record/Bulldog) and other brands of high-quality traditional English hand garden tools. Many different types of spades, forks, hoes and other implements. Contact them for a catalog - they do mail order sales to USA (no duty, no VAT, depending on where you live you may only pay state use tax). - Miscellaneous phone numbers: Gardener's Supply Co. (800-863-1700) A.M. Leonard (800-543-8955 Smith & Hawken (800-981-9888) Langenbach (800-362-4410) Kinsman Co. (800-733-4146) Walt Nicke's Garden Talk (508-887-3388) Harmony Farm Supply (707-823-9125) Peaceful Valley Farm Supply (916-272-4769) - 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 in North Carolina has successfully done this. http://www.johnnyseeds.com - 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 - The Cook's Garden "Seeds and Supplies for the New American Kitchen Garden" P.O. Box 535 Londonderry, Vermont, 05148 802-824-3400 Fax: 802-824-3027 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. - Snow & Nealley Axes & Mauls, Gardening and Woodworking Tools http://www.sntools.com/contact.htm Order Desk Hours, 8:00am - 5:00pm Monday - Friday Eastern Time. Telephone: (800)-933-6642 FAX: (207) 941-0857 Postal address: P.O. Box 876, Bangor, ME 04402-0876 Electronic mail: General Information, Sales, & Customer Service: info@sntools.com - Garden & Landscaping Connection at Where-AT (tm) website http://www.where-at.com/your_home/gardening.htm Lots of gardening links - Hand & Garden Tool Connection at Where-AT (tm) website http://www.where-at.com/your_home/tools.htm LOTS of links to all sorts of tool and equipment manufacturers & dealers - HARMONY FARM SUPPLY P.O. Box 451 Graton, CA 95444 - Cumberland General Store Catalog $3.00 from: Rt. 3 box 81, Crossville TN 38555 615-484-8481. - Mellinger's 2310 W. South Range Road North Lima, OH 44452-9731 216-549-9861 Offerings: seeds, woody plants, perennials, tropical plants, tools, growing supplies - 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 P.O. Box 453 Blairstown, N.J., 07825 Toll Free: 1-800-362-1991 - Ben Meadows Company Equipment for Natural Resource Managers 3589 Broad Street Atlanta, Georgia, 30341 1-800-241-6401 Fax: 1-800-628-2068 Mail Order address: P.O. Box 80549 Chamblee, Georgia, 30366 e-mail: mail@benmeadows.com http://www.benmeadows.com (great Web page!) See pages 132-139 for garden handtools information; see esp. page 134: Adze Hoe & Pic'N Planter tools - Shepherd's Garden Seeds Shipping Office 30 Irene St. Torrington, Connecticut, 06790 860-482-3638 - You might also call the folks at ATTRA (Appropriate Technology for Rural Areas) at 1-800-346-9140. They might have some other names & addresses for you. - P.A. Bonvallet's Sons Inc. R.R. 1 Box 160 St. Anne, IL 60964 815-427-8222 Offerings: pots, containers, soil conditioners, fertilizers Comments: wholesale distributor - W. Atlee Burpee & Co. 300 Park Ave. Warminster, PA 18991-0001 Offerings: seeds, perennials, bulbs, woody plants, supplies Comments: separate seasonal catalogs are available - Dayton Bag and Burlap 210 Dowdle St., Unit 5 Algonquin, IL 60102 708-658-8488 Fax: 708-658-4197 Offerings: nursery supplies Comments: wholesale distributor - - Dramm Corporation 2000 North 18th Street PO Box 1960 Manitowoc, WI 54221-1960 USA 920-684-0227 Voice 920-684-4499 Fax 800-258-0848 Toll Free USA webiste: http://www.dramm.com email: garden@dramm.com Dramm Products can be ordered on line at.. http://www.gardengift.com gardengift.com 619 South 26th Sreet Manitowoc, WI 54220-3707 USA email: service@gardengift.com Offerings: watering tools - - Earl May Seed Company 208 North Elm Street Shanandoah, IA 51603-0099 712-246-1020 Offerings: woody plants, seeds, perennials, growing supplies - Garden's Alive Hwy. 48, P.O. Box 149 Sunman, IN 47041 812-623-3800 Offerings: tools, equipment, IPM supplies, beneficial insects - Gardener's Supply 128 Intervale Rd. Burlington, VT 05401 802-863-1700 Offerings: tools, equipment, IPM supplies - Gempler's P.O. Box 270, 211 Blue Mound Rd. Mount Horeb, WI 53572 800-328-8473 Fax: 800-551-1128 Offerings: agricultural supplies, protective equipment - Grower's Supply Company P.O. Box 1123 Ann Arbor, MI 48106 313-662-6058 Offerings: indoor stands, lights and trays - Henry Field's Heritage Gardens 1 Meadow Ridge Rd. Shenandoah, IA 51601-0700 605-665-5188 Offerings: woody plants, perennials, tools, supplies - Innis Violets 8 Maddison Lane Lynnfield, MA 01904 617-334-6679 Offerings: African violet growing supplies, high dome terrariums - J. W. Jung Seed Co. 335 S. High Street Rondolf, WI 53956 Offerings: seeds, woody plants, perennials, tools, supplies - Midwest Trading P.O. Box 384 St. Charles, IL 60174 708-742-1840 Fax: 708-888-3818 Offerings: horticultural supplies, equipment, tools, and structures. Comments: wholesale catalog - Park Seed Company Cokesbury Road Greennwood, SC 29647-0001 Offerings: seeds, bulbs, perennials, growing supplies Comments: separate seasonal catalogs offered - Ringer 9959 Valley View Road Eden Prairie, MN 55344-3585 800-654-1047 Fax: 612-941-5036 Offerings: tools, equipment, growing supplies, IPM supplies Comments: offers a range of organic lawn and garden products - Wayside Gardens 1 Garden Lane Hodges, SC 29695-0001 800-845-1124 Offerings: perennials, woody plants, growing supplies Comments: illustrated catalog - Wingert Pottery 1185 Atlantic Dr. West Chicago, IL 60185 708-293-9097 Fax: 708-293-9114 Offerings: clay pots, garden ornaments Comments: an extensive selection of clay pots, wholesale and retail, a division of Ceramo Company, Inc. : Lawrence F. London, Jr. Venaura Farm http://metalab.unc.edu/intergarden /permaculture /intergarden/orgfarm /ecolandtech lflondon@mindspring.com london@metalab.unc.edu