The low-cost tool, known as the Slide Hammer Seeder (a jab-style seeder), gives farmers and gardeners specific control in sowing plants with very small seeds.

This is the main reason you should reconsider spreading grass seed by hand. The temptation is obvious — spreading seed by hand is quick and simple. This is especially true when seeding small areas.

Just like their seeds, the eventual sprouts are extremely small and difficult to thin. Plus, everything you have to remove amounts to wasted seed -- and extra work.

This precision saved wasting seeds and a new system was born. This example of a hand pushed seed drill was manufactured around 1880 by H. Bushell & Sons in the York area.

KALISPELL, Mont. — Land to Hand MT will host a Free The Seeds event featuring more than 20 educational workshops by local experts discussing various gardening topics. Over the last eight years ...

A perfect picture for an organic seed harvest. The small business 70 miles north New York City makes seeds the old fashioned way. They are largely plucked, winnowed and packed by hand.