Re: Copper garden tools, ..still

[Aurora Farm]

Manfred and All:   Peaceful Valley Farm Supply www.groworganic.com carries a hook-type cultivator with copper rivet for about $24.   You mention Lee Valley Tools.  Probably a lot of folks in the U.S. aren't familiar with this Canadian company, which carries high quality garden and woodworking tools at very reasonable prices, even more reasonable considering that the U.S. dollar is worth $1.60 Canadian these days..  Their classic reprint series of books, long out of print until they republished them, is very interesting.  And, they have the ORIGINAL duct tape--twice as strong and twice as sticky!  www.leevalley.com  800-267-8767   Woody Aurora Farm is the only unsubsidized, family-run seed farm in North America offering garden seeds grown using Rudolf Steiner's methods of spiritual agriculture.  http://www.kootenay.com/~aurora     -----Original Message----- From: Manfred Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, March 02, 2002 8:24 PM Subject: Re: Copper garden tools, ..still Folks : I checked with Lee Valley Tools, and apparently they don't carry the copper-button Hoe anymore. I've requested info on their old stock. I remember it more as a large copper rivet.... whose sloughing-off would be much less imposing than sprinkling around filings of copper, methinks. I did not purchase one at the time because i could not reconcile Frank's similar concern with any copper in the ground without a basis in existing presence , ....and the voluminous amount --suggested by Schauberger-via -Steve --thru the use of several plowshares at a time. Frank, Steve, : does it repulse worms/microlife, or over-ridingly benefit in water-retention properties? Should we be that concerned ....as Schauberger seemed to be? The proportion of copper in bronze is obviously less than a "pure" copper contact. Incidentally, Lee Valley also sold longish copper strips -1-inch wide for slugs in the garden for its electro/chemical reaction. .......manfred