USA made garden tools

Made in the USA garden tools are used by sustainable living Amish families. When the family garden is depended upon to supply large families with fresh organic grown vegetables the Amish don’t rely on cheaply made imported garden tools.

For them gardening tools have to hold up and keep sharp cutting edges anything less just won’t cut the mustard when growing and cultivating a family garden is at stake. 

Regrettably many people who dream of growing their own food year after year will short cut the process and purchase cheaper made imported garden tools.  They fatigue quickly because the cutting edges quickly dull or the tool comes out of the handle after just a few times in the garden. 

Growing a garden is hard and does require a lot of physical activity but without the proper tools some will just end up throwing in the towel and giving up on the idea.

Over the decades many reproduction garden tools have been copied by importers which just don’t function as well as the originals.

Stores like Cottage Craft Works www.cottagecraftworks.com provide direct access to the same old fashioned garden tools being used in the Amish communities.  Most of the tools are still made one at a time in small Amish factories.

Cottage Craft Works offers three different Amish made hoesand eight different styles of hand push garden cultivators including child and lady friendly sizes. The Wheel Hoe garden cultivators patterned from the after the old time Planet Junior  are considered the Cadillac of hand push cultivators and have the most available options for the serious gardener.

You can also find canning and preserving equipment as well as hobby farming equipment such as a garden line row builder for compact tractors, sprayers, orchard equipment, cider presses, supplies and so much more.

Cottage Craft Works is a full line general store chocked full of old fashioned vintage favorites for the self-sufficient home, garden, farm or ranch.  A large department is dedicated to hunting calls, gun accessories including replacement gun stocks.

Hand Pushed Garden Cultivators

Old fashioned hand push garden cultivators are making a strong come back as people turn to safer home grown vegetables. Shop one of the largest selections of hand push garden cultivators, featuring Amish USA made garden cultivators for any size and type of garden. Garden cultivators are available for men, women and children size gardeners.

People are returning to back yard vegetable gardens. More and more news reports show just how vulnerable our food chain is with contaminates, concerns with chemical and genetic altered vegetables being linked to serious health issues within the population.  It is also at a time when increased fresh vegetable consumption is being strongly recommended to reduce the risk of obesity and heart diseases.

Those who grown their vegetables can select Non-GMO seeds and use organic gardening methods for the safest and freshest vegetable and produce for their families.

Whether you’re growing a large, small, or even a container patio garden quality well built garden tools are essential.

Backyard gardening is not a new concept just a lost one.  At the turn of the Century and even long before almost every family grew vegetables and produce in a back yard vegetable garden. This was the only real option for fresh vegetables as most local general stores only carried a few canned and dry food items.

The hand push garden push cultivator was a basic necessity then as they are still today in the Amish self sustaining communities.

The Amish make their garden cultivators for long term use. You simply will not find the cheaper imported big wheel cultivators being used by the Amish because they are not as well made, harder to push and just don’t withstand long term use.

The owners at Cottage Craft Works go deep into the Amish communities to seek out and bring to the general public these well made garden cultivators and other Amish made products. 

Many of the Amish products are continued productions of the original time trusted designs.  As the country shifted over from home grown to store bought the Amish began having difficulty in finding companies who were still making the old fashioned products. Amish blacksmith and metal working shops began to reproduce those items to continue the Amish sustainable way of life.

The Hoss Wheel Hoe Garden Cultivators are actual reproductions of the once popular Planet Junior Garden Cultivators and are still considered the Cadillac of garden cultivators. The Wheel Hoe Garden Cultivators have the most available options from different cutting and slicing blades to a garden disk harrow as well as a garden seeder. They are also available in a single wheel or double wheel models, The double wheel straddles small plantings so that you can cultivate both sides of a row at the same time.  

The Weed & Till Rotary Garden Cultivator is another old time favorite reproduction.  It features a rolling drum with sharp cutting blade to chop weeds and then the traditional cultivating tines

The Flip and Go Garden Cultivator is a great example of Amish time saving ingenuity. It saves time from changing out the cultivating tines to a plow by simply flipping the cultivator over.

The E-Z Till, Easy Push and Gardener Choice Garden Cultivators are all designed for the Amish women and children in mind. They are the ones who mostly tend to the vegetable gardening and produce while the Amish men and older boys tend to the farm crops.  The cultivators feature a simple design using a hard rubber bicycle wheel in place of the traditional metal wheels.  The design makes the cultivator lighter weight and easier to maneuver.

Cottage Craft Works.com is a unique general store with an emporium of old fashioned USA made products.  Most of the products are still being made in small Amish shops where the shop owner still hand makes and packages their products.

See all of the Amish gardencultivators and attachments. Cottage Craft Works Garden Cultivators  

Standard Single Wheel Hoe Cultivator

Little Double Wheel Hoe

Disk Harrow Attachment

Little Double Wheel Hoe With Double Hoe Attachments

Weed & Till Rotary Garden Cultivator

Flip & Go Garden Cultivator

EZ-Till Garden Cultivator

Gardener Choice Garden Cultivator

                                                   Easy Push Garden Cultivator

USA Made Hand Push Garden Cultivators

When it comes to serious gardening and when people still depend on home grown produce for self-sufficient living the Amish make and use the best hand push garden cultivators.

While many are selling imported big wheel garden cultivators the serious gardeners seek out the Amish made ones because of the quality materials used in them.

Those who are looking for the best selection of USA made garden cultivators go to Cottage Craft Works . www.cottagecraftworks.com/handpushcultivators

Cottage Craft Works carries six different types of just hand push cultivators.   The Wheel Hoe garden cultivators are reproductions of the famous Planet Junior cultivators that were the mainstay of home gardeners in the early to mid 1900s.

The Wheel Hoe cultivators have the most attachments available to till and slice through gardens.  The tool bar allows for groupings of attachments to till both sides of a row at the same time as well as furrow and hill rows without double passes.

Other cultivators include a flip and go a clever top and bottom sided cultivator with a plow on one side and traditional garden tines on the other side.  Simply pivot the cultivator to either side and use the cutting tools without ever having to change out attachments.

The Rotary Weed & Till is a reproduction that uses a rolling set of blades as the wheel to cut and chop weeds while the back tines turns up the roots.

There’s even cultivators for all sizes of people.  It is the Amish women and children who mostly tend to the gardening side of the household while the Amish men tend to the field corps and their different manufacturing businesses.

The Junior Wheel Hoe and the EZ-Till cultivators are smaller and more youth and lady friendly.

Cottage Craft Works is a unique back-to-basics online store that specializes in hard to find old fashion type of products that are still in demand.

Garden Equipment | Carts and Wagons | USA Made the old fashioned way

See how the Amish are still making these heavy duty garden and lawn carts as they were American made in the 1950s and 1960s.  They are available online as well as all types of Amish built wagons for kids and garden decor at http://www.cottagecraftworks.com/back-basics-farm-garden-wagons-barrows-c-64_123_87.html

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Master Gardeners, who are they and how to become one yourself. No degree required!

In return for their training and certification. Master Gardeners volunteer time back to the community to help others.

If you live close to a large university or county extension office with an active Master Gardener program, have time to volunteer, and want to meet new people, this might be a great educational program for you.

Through local county extension offices affiliated with state universities local community people who love to grow flowers, plants, trees, shrubs, and gardening, and who are willing to volunteer to help others can receive extensive training to achieve the certification of a Master Gardener.

It’s a perfect opportunity to learn a new chapter or life journey while meeting new people without having to enroll into expensive college level courses.

People of all ages and walks of life join these county extension programs to learn about the culture and maintenance of plants that work best in their zones.

It’s a perfect opportunity for the retired or for the youth committed to learning new back to basic skills while giving time to others.

There’s hardly any college level programs available for free or such low cost that gives so much to an individual and to a community.

Some Master Gardener programs may require a token fee of around $50 to cover the cost of books and supplies.

Some programs will also require a small annual fee under $20.

Becoming a Master Gardener, might just give a person a good second career or supplemental income.

Many garden centers and nurseries seek out and hire Master Gardeners to assist and advise customers on plant questions.

As people are becoming more concerned about the safety and increasing cost of vegetables, they are returning back to old fashion gardening skills.

A Master Gardener program helps people get back-to-basics of growing things themselves.

Others are interested in maintaining the perfect yard and balance of seasonal colors through healthy plantings.

From a beginner to a long time gardener it’s at best difficult to keep up with new growing techniques, more tolerable varieties and control of plant diseases.

Master Gardener students receive a university designed curriculum training on all types of plant diseases, beneficial and non-beneficial bugs, planting and plant care.

Classes are usually held on campus or at the extension office. Students might attend class one night per week for up to three months, and then have additional training in the extension office greenhouse and gardens.

They are then required to maintain a certain number of continuing education to maintain their Master Gardener Certification. Depending on the state requirements continuing education hours should be around 10 hours per year.

In return for the training Master Gardeners agree to volunteer a minimum number of hours per year working in the extension office gardens, greenhouse or in the office helping the public with gardening and plant questions. Most states only require as little as 50 hours per year.

People also meet many new lifelong friends who share in similar interest. Besides the extension office experience, they help in the green houses and manicured gardens that greet new visitors seeking information about plantings.

Master Gardeners also participate in annual plant sells, conferences and public events to educate the general public about all aspects of growing.

If you enjoy plants, the outdoors, live close to an active Master Gardener program, and have time to train and then volunteer. You might want to contact your local Master Gardener Coordinator, just Google Search County Extension Office or Master Gardner programs for your area.

You can find all types of old fashioned garden tools, hand push cultivators, carts and wagons at www.cottagecraftworks.com