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title: More 350 Art--with a Scythe!
date: 2009-05-27T18:07:59Z
modified: 2009-06-02T15:17:38Z
permalink: "https://350.org/more-350-art-scythe/"
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status: publish
excerpt: "If you're like me, you have a difficult time pronouncing the word \"Scythe.\" But when Bill McKibben sent this to me yesterday, it didn't matter--now I'm amazed at the possibilities for"
wpid: 4620
author: May Boeve
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_If you’re like me, you have a difficult time pronouncing the word “Scythe.” But when Bill McKibben sent this to me yesterday, it didn’t matter–now I’m amazed at the possibilities for Scythe Art on October 24!_

 This is one of the best pictures we’ve gotten since the 350 campaign began–in part because it was created not with a machine but with a scythe, on Peter Vido’s farm in New Brunswick, Canada. Peter isan internationally renowned scythe activist, keeping alive an important part of our farming heritage. Read more about it [here.](https://scytheconnection.com/adp/grinning/index.html)

We wrote to ask him if he’d coordinate some scythe actions for Oct. 24–rounding up some of his blade-wielding friends to carve big 350s out of fields still unmown at that late date in the (northern hemisphere) harvest season. He said sure–and then within a few hours he’d gone out and created this work of art as a kind of appetizer.

The speed with which this intricate image was created proves one of his points: that the scythe, far from being a relic of our agricultural past, is an essential and beautiful tool for our post-carbon future. We can’t wait to see what happens on Oct. 24–our appetite is whetted!