Collecting antique garden tools has become a quietly popular hobby, blending history with practical craftsmanship. Over time, some of these tools have gained surprising value, attracting collectors ...

Garden tools are seldom retired. Some are used, reused and handed down in families; others are just forgotten in corners of tool sheds or garages. Whatever their history, garden tools make fine ...

Over the years, I’ve collected a lot of different kinds of gardening tools. One of my most unusual tools has to be my hand-held rotary hoe. The garden rotary hoe I have has a long handle so I can ...

As you have been traveling this summer, have you taken note of America's many fields of wheat, corn, soybeans and other produce? The fields are an inspiring vision, but if you step back 200 years, you ...

Shep Ogden holds out his tanned, burly forearm and shows off his hand: “My favorite tool is right here,” he says, flexing his fingers. “I keep it at the end of my arm.” It’s a well-used tool. Years of ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. >> The Montgomery Place Campus of Bard College is hosting a new exhibit focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, ...

Editor's note: The name of a reader who provided a correct answer — Fran Keen of Lancaster — was omitted from previous version of this story. Do you know what this vintage tool was used for? It’s an ...

Here at VERANDA, we believe that every room needs pieces with some age to add visual interest. Antique and vintage furnishings are inherently timeless; after all, if that table was beautiful in 1920 ...