Some people have questioned why we have chosen to use the structure of a Frisbee-like disc to distribute seeds. Why not, for instance, a ball? We answer that we are interested in developing a toy that was accessible to the widest demographic and that would not require other kinds of equipment or an entire game. A Frisbee-like structure can be passed from one person and on and on and on, within a circle, down a row of people, above fences, etc. In other words, Throw-n-Sow can be deployed by a diversity of people. Its various project components can engage people on different levels.

Throw-n-Sow's community is diverse and inclusive. The individuals with whom we plan to work are college-age students, inner-city elementary-age youth, workers at various non-profit and NGO offices, mothers and children living in towns along the Mexico-American border, members of native plant societies, artists, toxicologists, botanists, members of Ultimate Frisbee teams, passersby, etc.

Throw-n-Sow is a project whose deployment necessarily relies on more that just one person and whose success relies on the contribution of various people. Throw-n-Sow ultimately aims to valorize distributive intelligence and interdisciplinary learning.

Throw-n-Sow has been described as a drawing tool, an implement for seeding, a design object, a pedagogical instrument, a sport of the future, a philosophical object, and more. These statements are testament to the way that the Throw-n-Sower functions as a projective medium into which individuals and communities project their desires, anticipations, and aspirations. Throw-n-Sow fulfills a plethora of wishes: the desire for political change, to fly across limits, to regenerate and rejuvenate, to render beautiful that which horrifies.

On a symbolic level, what does Throw-n-Sow do?

As an empty container into which people put seeds, Throw-n-Sow is an object that is socially and ecologically programmed. An object that relies on its passage between two or more individuals, Throw-n-Sow commemorates interaction and play. As a tool that draws lines in a specific location but flies to other locations, Throw-n-Sow symbolically connects regions. As an object that engages seed and site, Throw-n-Sow asks us to think about the way we shape our landscape and how it shapes us.