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Wheel Barrow – Girard Farm Cyanotype, 22” x 30” photo credit: Jay York PREVIOUS | NEXT RETURN TO GIRARD FARM

Tine Weeding Rake – Four Season Farm Cyanotype photo credit: Jay York PREVIOUS | NEXT RETURN TO FOUR SEASON FARM

Wheel Weeder – Four Season Farm Cyanotype, 15” x 22” photo credit: Jay York Wheel weeders help farmers turn up new thread stage weeds and more established weeds in one go. PREVIOUS | NEXT RETURN TO FOUR SEASON FARM

Greens Harvester- Four Season Farm Cyanotype photo credit: Jay York PREVIOUS | NEXT RETURN TO FOUR SEASON FARM

Johnny’s Seed Bed Roller – Four Season Farm Cyanotype, 22” x 30” photo credit: Jay York Developed by Johnny’s Seeds in partnership with Eliot Coleman, this rolling cylinder of heavy-duty lobster trap wire, smooths and prepares beds for direct seeding. PREVIOUS | NEXT RETURN TO FOUR SEASON FARM

Eliot Coleman’s Gardening Hoes – Four Season Farm Cyanotype, 22” x 30” photo credit: Jay York All of these gardening hoes live in Garfield, the largest greenhouse at Four Season Farm; the colinear, stirrup, delta wire, pacifist, trapezoid, and long-handled wire weeder; each one designed for a particular purpose. PREVIOUS…

Hay – College of the Atlantic’s Peggy Rockefeller Farm Cyanotype, 15” x 22” photo credit: Jay York PREVIOUS | NEXT RETURN TO PEGGY ROCKEFELLER FARM

Ear Tagger – College of the Atlantic’s Peggy Rockefeller Farm Cyanotype, 15” x 22” photo credit: Jay York Ear taggers were first used to mark King George the III’s royal Merinos and then to keep track of sick and healthy cattle during a 1913 Tuberculosis epidemic. PREVIOUS | NEXT RETURN…

Ring Expander – College of the Atlantic’s Peggy Rockefeller Farm Cyanotype, 15” x 22” photo credit: Jay York Ring expanders are used to dock a lamb’s tail. Sheep have been selectively bred for millennia and their thick wool makes for heavy tails that are difficult to pick up. As a…

Fencing Pliers – College of the Atlantic’s Peggy Rockefeller Farm Cyanotype, 15” x 22” photo credit: Jay York A multipurpose tool that hammers, staples, cuts and splices fencing wire. C. J. and his students constantly move the farm’s fencing to rotationally graze sheep and cattle. When the land has a…