The garden bench

Grow something worth keeping.

Forged hand tools and small goods for the beds you tend every day. Made in small batches, built to outlast a trend.

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A potting bench with herbs, terracotta pots and hand tools in window light

Forge Hand TrowelCarbon steel, ash handle, oil-rubbed.

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The Potting Bench

A trowel with a tang that runs the whole handle, and copper supports for the stems that need them.

Trowels and plant supports

02

The Garden Bed

Forged shears that earn their patina out in the rain and the dirt, and a spring you can replace.

Shears and pruners

03

The Seed Shelf

A wooden box of glass vials for the seed you save at the end of the season, labelled by hand.

Seed storage

A forged carbon-steel hand trowel with a wooden handle

Forged in the workshop

Forge Hand Trowel$48

Carbon steel with a full-length tang, an ash handle seasoned in linseed oil, and an edge you can sharpen for decades.

Forged pruning shears with leather-wrapped handles beside a sprig of rosemary

Bypass Pruning Shears$64

Forged blades, leather-wrapped grips.

Three copper plant-support rings standing in a terracotta pot

Copper Plant Supports, Set of 3$36

Hand-bent copper that weathers to green.

An open wooden seed box holding glass vials and seed packets

Heirloom Seed Box$58

A wooden box with glass vials for saving seed.

Everything on the bench

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Four pieces, made to be handed down.

Our Workshop

Everything here is made by hand, a few at a time.

We started Iron & Leaf because we could not find a trowel with a tang that ran the whole length of the handle. So we forged one.

Every tool is forged from carbon steel in our Portland workshop, and every handle is seasoned in linseed oil. Nothing is mass-pressed. Send any of our tools back at any age and we will sharpen, re-handle or re-tin it for the cost of the parts.

Care & repair

A tool should outlast the person who bought it.

— The rule on the workshop wall

Notes from the bench.

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