![]() We do have other pronged hoes, but I would not have imagined a hand tool to penetrate into soil with such ease - nor be capable, after each swing, of aerating/lifting/moving the amount of earth the Magna Grecia does. It may appear odd - but whoever designed this hoe must have understood something about the dynamics of soil penetration that many others apparently have not. ![]() The prongs are 12 inches long (between the eye and the tips), the tough, well-beveled chopping blade on the opposite side 2 3/4 inches wide and 4 1/2 inches long. She came back excitedly in a rather short time with a request: "Call to Italy right away and order more of these." The "these" she was referring to are the so-called Magna Grecia hoe, popular in the Calabria region of South Italy (but, curiously enough, in very few other places). She went to deep-till some beds in what mostly was years' worth of accumulated worm castings, now very compacted, as well as try it out in our new "pasture garden" where, after one rough moldboard plowing a year ago (with livestock having free access to interim), we planned to make a corn and potato patch with only hand tools. This spring I put a handle on a curious gardening tool I brought from Italy, and Ashley (who is a seasoned and enthusiastic digging fork user) was the first to put it to the test. Satisfied with them all, we weren't looking for another principally different design. We have many samples of these ranging in weight from 200 to 1000gm. So are the likes of the English swan neck or the collinear hoes which have been hanging in the shed unused for years because we had long ago switched to the pointed/heart versions. The classic square-bottomed garden spade, by the way, is somewhat useless in this region's stony ground. The digging fork (albeit a good version thereof) has featured as the most essential of them all, often taking at once the place of a plow and a weeding hoe. and the closer you can get to the "right kind" of hoe, the more this will be true.ĭuring the 36 years of gardening we have used a rather wide variety of human-powered tools to work the soil. To establish a garden "from scratch", with only one tool - and then tend it throughout the whole season - I consider the digging hoe as the most expedient option. (The broad forks/u-bar diggers are, in my view, limited in application and for now excluded from this discussion.) The spade/shovel/garden fork group is probably the most popular in North America, while the digging hoes - of which hundreds of models were once made - are more versatile and widespread globally. The best version of each of these can, under certain conditions, out-perform a representative of the other group - or members of the same group. The initial low-tech breaking of the sod can be accomplished with various basic tools, which can be roughly divided into two categories: This, in view of both Peak Oil and Climate Change, is a darn good strategy. And, more so now than a decade or two ago, significant portion of these new gardeners are doing it with hand-powered, rather than motorized tools. The transformation of lawns (along with other urban and rural "marginal" little pieces of Earth) into gardens is finally gaining notable momentum. It was received on behalf of all partners of the project by Milena Marzano and Luca Ottomanelli from the Italian B-corporation Milccop and Michela Cariglia from Consorzio Gargano Pesca.THE MAGNA GRECIA HOE A groundbreaking tool for "The World Made By Hand" The Magna Grecia award was received for the first EU platform that matches in real-time, skills, new sustainable jobs, education, and a new, engaging sense of work, in the aquaculture and fishery sector, with 100.000 new reskilling paths and jobs by 2025. It fights the standardization, the sterile conformism and the lack of participation to launch a new season of cultural and value revival.Īnd our AGAPE project certainly meets these criteria. It is first of all, a cultural project, a container of shared reflections that wants to trigger a moral and cultural revolution by promoting sustainable and human-sized lifestyles. The Magna Grecia Awards recognizes itself in the universal values of this ancient Mediterranean civilization: democracy, freedom, tolerance, dialogue and solidarity among men. The Magna Grecia Award is supported by the European Commission, the region of Puglia (Italy) and many other local sponsors and supporters. Our AGAPE project is only a few months old, and yet, it already received a prestigious Magna Grecia award.
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