Learn how to use a scythe on your property for haying, harvesting, and more – while enjoying an invigorating method to farming that scythe use brings. Forms of the scythe have been in use since at ...

Major events such as The Green Scythe Fair at Muchelney in Somerset are immensely popular with contestants of both sexes and all ages Credit: Photo: Christopher Jones/The Telegraph One shirtless man ...

CONTRADA PETRARO, Sicily — Spring is ending and summer approaches. The grass is now long, finished growing. For us, it’s time to scythe. Scything is an ancient method of cutting grasses that few ...

Scything, the traditional method of cutting vegetation using a shaped razor-sharp blade on a long handle, is undergoing something of a revival in Oxfordshire. Wielding a scythe has a magical quality: ...

Put your strimmer out to pasture and pick up a scythe – they are quieter, safer and have even become a social pastime. Scything is making a comeback. I had a lesson last night from Richard Brown of ...

The long paper-wrapped parcel that arrived in the post was quickly dubbed the Nimbus 2000. Inside wasn’t a magical flying machine but a pretty special mowing one. At the end of this no-mow summer ...

I recently bought my husband a scythe. Oh, how we’d have chortled about it back in the day, and yet already it feels like the most magical of garden tools, a secret weapon against the long, coarse ...