A small, dedicated family business

Advice, courses, and scythe and other hand tool sales since 2010

For many years before launching this activity, we were already trying to move towards greater food autonomy, simple technologies, a lighter ecological footprint, independence from large multinationals, etc. For about twenty years, Peter honed his mowing and peening skills by mowing a lot at home and at his former job for the maintenance of green spaces, through books and some fortunate exchanges with elders, and thanks to Peter Vido's writings. Not only pleasant to use, but also very efficient, this simple, low impact tool fit perfectly with our values and in 2010 we decided to help introduce it to others. Since then, Peter has taught several hundred people, but also municipal workers, self-employed workers who maintain green spaces and gardens, and, since 2021, other scything teachers.

The manufacture of a quality scythe is a highly skilled job that's been carried out in specialized workshops and factories for centuries by master scythesmiths. We work with renowned European manufacturers in Italy and Austria who perpetuate this tradition. For the accessories and other tools we sell, we also work with European manufacturers who produce quality tools with good value for money.

We do not and will never work with giant e-commerce distributors who create unfair competition or exploit their employees... We work from our home, quite simply, as a small family business on a human scale. It therefore goes without saying that we take our time to guide our customers in choosing their tools. We want to offer you not only quality tools at an affordable price, but also quality service, so that you get the tools best suited to your situation.

​And, always in line with reducing our ecological footprint, we fill our packages with packing material recuperated from local businesses who need to dispose of this material. In the same spirit, we limit our car trips by grouping together parcel shipments and other obligations as much as possible.

You can always count on our availability, our expertise and our personalized advice, and on the respect of these values, which take precedence over profitability.

We look forward to hearing from you,​​​

Peter & Christina De Schepper

Our home, in a village on the border between the Famenne and Ardennes regions