Farmhouse Kitchen Garden

An 18th century family, such as the Adriances, would have cultivated a “kitchen garden” just outside their home, to harvest herbs and vegetables for seasoning and preserving food, as well as for medicinal and aromatic uses. Our interpretative herb garden features perennial and annual herbs for culinary, medicinal, aromatic and ornamental uses, some of which are uncommon in contemporary gardens. The growing season is April – November and includes the following plants: