Annual Herb and Heirloom Plant Sale Starts at Page Farm and Home Museum
Contact: Patty Henner, (207) 581-4100, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
ORONO — If you got a late start on your herb and vegetable garden, the UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum’s Fourth Annual plant sale, running June 10 through June 26, can help you catch up.
More than 2,000 seedlings and plants — annuals, medicinal, culinary, cutting and everlasting — some up to 6-8 inches tall and all started locally from seed will be available at the museum on the Orono campus.
Proceeds from the sale benefit the museum’s spring planting and heirloom landscaping gardens and related maintenance projects. Herb and heirloom vegetable prices are $1 per plant. Hours for sale are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays.
Herb and heirloom vegetable varieties include: German thyme, common sage, mammoth dill, catnip, Italian flat-leaf parsley, flat-leaf parsley, chives, garlic chives, cilantro/coriander, Echinacea, lemon balm, Korean licorice mint, hyssop, sweet marjoram, heirloom Greek oregano, bouquet dill, Colorado chile, Rio Grande hot chile, basil, sacred, Genovese sweet, cinnamon, lemon, lime, Genserve, tomatoes (red, yellow pear, Burbank red, Brandywine, heirloom red calabash and San Marz), peppers (yellow perfection, Wardelo sweet, California wonder bell, Arkansas traveler), mountain spinach, squash (yellow crook-neck, seeds of change, heirloom blue ballet), gourd and birdhouse gourd, cocozelle bush zucchini, watermelon, pumpkin, Spanish radish, Armenian cucumber, Jersey cabbage, musk melon, radish, red cabbage, Calabrese broccoli and lambs quarters.
The museum’s herb and heirloom plants garden also is available to visit on site. More information and directions to the Page Farm and Home Museum are available by calling the museum at (207) 581-4100.
The museum, one of its kind in the area and free to visit, reflects the many varied aspects of farming and farm life from 1865 to 1940. Exhibits include farm equipment and vehicles, poultry, dairy, 4-H, ice harvesting, in addition to a blacksmith shop, an exhibit by the Orono Historical Society and a gift shop in an old-fashioned general store setting.