Garden tools to dig

There is only one thing better than creating a beautiful garden – and that’s creating it with beautiful gardening tools.

Grafa garden tools are handmade locally in Melbourne’s inner west by a passionate gardener named Travis. Travis was originally inspired by the work of the Austrian naturalistic movement, which showed that using copper tools could benefit soils in agriculture.

In crafting his creations, he uses readily available copper, bronze and hardwood timber materials. Much of the copper is up-cycled, reclaimed tube collected from metal recycling centres around Melbourne. Copper is mainly used because it is malleable enough to shape but being a single tube, it is still strong enough to handle years in the garden. It is also infinitely recyclable – even 50% of new copper is made from recycled copper.

Bronze is used for the tool heads on the timber handle range because of its toughness, strength, low coefficient of friction and fine grain.

The tools were specifically designed with organic and biodynamic gardening principles in mind. Copper does not rust and its properties are found to promote growth and nutrient uptake.

We love that something that looks this good can be as equally good for the garden.

Guess what will be on our Santa lists this year?

Click here for more information on Grafa garden tools.

from landscape.net.au http://www.landscape.net.au/garden-tools-to-dig/