Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When my dad died, his scythe was hanging on its peg in his tool barn. He was the type of man who had pegs for ...

Because the fourth-generation farmer believes we are in the midst of a renaissance for scythes, the hand tool that perhaps best defines pre-industrial agriculture. And, he adds, it’s not just because ...

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 ...

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