![]() ![]() I should note that the items for sale on the British site are the same, but a smaller selection than those at Īnyway, a Russian person emailed me and asked if I’d like to sell Ploskorez in the U.S. The British site quoted me some absurdly high prices for shipping and for the tools themselves, no doubt because they’re coming from Britain. Mostly I heard that I couldn’t get anything in the U.S. Meanwhile I sent emails to Russian language sites selling Плоскорез ФокинаĪnd I heard back from a few. “Ploskorez” doesn’t translate well with an automatic translation, but it seems to mean something like “flat-cutter.” I contacted the site above and another British one that sells them in the U.K. The British site sells stainless steel hoes and calls them cultivators. I did however find a British website – – that appears to sell tools related to Fokin hoes. – not even Amazon or anyone through Ebay. I searched for “Fokin hoe” on Google and came across no sellers of these things in the U.S. Since it’s winter and I don’t have many actual garden duties yet, I thought I’d try to buy one of these things. Which doesn’t look like much, but the great Sepp Holzer says it saves him loads of time, so what am I waiting for? On two pages Sepp recommends the Fokin hoe: Sepp’s writing style is somewhat erratic, mixing examples of amazing reverse-desertifying stories with small scale garden advice. I read about a garden tool called a “Fokin Hoe” in Sepp’s most recent book, Desert or Paradise: His approach is very holistic, he’s an extremely astute observer, rather ingenious, and doesn’t care what the established wisdom is. He was doing permaculture before David Holmgren and Bill Mollison came up with the word in the 1970s. He’s inspiring because he’s a living example of someone who’s practiced permaculture for decades. I’ve read his books in English – The Rebel Farmer, Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture, and Desert or Paradise. Sepp Holzer is one of my favorite permaculturists.
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