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    TRIED & TRUE

    Aug 03, 2023 3 minutes

    Urban Revolution

    JAPANESE SICKLE

    Review by Robyn Rosenfeldt

    My Japanese sickle is an important member of the close-knit family of tools I call my old trusties. These include a hand trowel, secateurs, a hori hori (part trowel, part knife), scissors and a hand fork. They all live in my tool caddy (Pip, Issue 25) which I carry with me when I am gardening and means I no longer lose my tools to the far corners of the vegie patch.

    While it might not be as regular a friend

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