Enter the Scythe

As spring goes, the thistles grow 🌱 😨 There’s about a 1/2 acre of perennial herbs that were quickly, heartbreakingly getting overrun by nettle, bind weed, horsetail and thistles so so sooooo fast I couldn’t use hand tools and hoes to keep it weeded.

Were I to have chosen the weedwacker, it would have binded many times in the thick stem of nettle and thistle. Taken hours or days. Probably broken or run out of power or line because of the brutality. Tilling under destroys the soil ecology, would generate more weedy regrowth, and would likely bind and fail often given the size of nettle and thistles Im dealing with. Both these tools also indiscriminately destroys all in their path.


Enter the scythe 🗡 💪

Slice through oppressors falling to the wayside. Wilting in the sun; mulching the roots of beloved lemon balm, flowers and berry bushes as they decompose. With this tool, I can carefully cut around the stem of herbs, young bushes and flowering bulbs without stopping my flow or wreaking unwanted havoc💫

Team Shae & Scythe were an unstoppable force. Honing the blade every 15 min or so kept us traveling; my body strong and constantly adjusting to preserve and protect the beloved botanicals while destroying the aggressive invaders.

In the last 5 years I’ve had serious injuries or breaks to both my wrists and ankles. It’s such a joy to be here now: upright, using my wrists healing and growing stronger every day ❤️‍🩹 🙌

I’m so appreciative of the storyline arc here. When im faithful to the garden, to moving my body and choosing nontoxic tools that work in harmony with me and the land ☀️ we all grow more functional, balanced and healthy.