Garden Contraptions and How To Make Them

Zine. published by Microcosm

Since its publication in the early 1900s, Rolfe Cobleigh’s Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them has been a popular resource for homesteaders, gardeners, farmers, agricultural workers, and DIY enthusiasts. Now we’re bringing it to you in handy, portable, and easily-readable zine form, starting with Garden Contraptions and How to Make Them, a collection instructions for crafting ingenious devices for home gardeners, made with materials you may already have on hand. Featuring charming original illustrations and relayed in Cobleigh’s amusingly frank style (and sprinkled with aphorisms like “Love thy neighbor, yet pull not down thy hedge,”) this timeless guide offers strategies for projects from surveying land to constructing greenhouses, trellising grapes to building bridges, and beyond!