Farm Glance: Hope Seeds Part 1
While on a cycling trip in Eastern Canada my friends and I stopped by Hope Seeds in New Brunswick to meet Andrea Berry, owner operator. Her farm and business were very impressive, but for now I’ll just feature a great tool idea for the seed nuts among us:
Andrea uses these spoons to efficiently measure her seed into the packages that she ships to her customers. Each spoon has its volume labled on its shaft in mL. This way, she can consult a table she has made that charts her mail-out seed weights against the different sized spoons. Voila! No need for weighing out each portion time after time.
This spoon is made by driving a nail into a piece of dowel, flattening the other end of the nail, and then drilling a bolt through the nail and a piece of copper pipe. The smaller, lighter coloured spoons (see 1st picture) are simpler--a hole is drilled through the side of the base of the piece of pipe, the nail is worked through the hole and then driven into the dowel. I'm guessing the piece of pipe was then welded to the nail.
Thanks to Andrea Berry of Hope seeds for a fantastic tour and for sharing this idea with us.
