It has been a personal ambition of mine to teach scything at school to teenagers for about 10 years. This week I finally got to do it. Very satisfying.
Many of the pupils are children of farmers and generally not used to using hand tools, but for habitat management and managing food forests and herbaceous landscapes they are the ideal tool once you get the hang of them.
One School One Planet Podcast is from the schools project in Llanfyllin this week and this is accompanied by a slideshow of some of our work with Welsh Baccalaureate GCSE class.
We have a way to go before we get this good. There is a resurgence in hand-tools and the realisation that no moving parts means nothing can break.