Plant, learn, and grow!

What medicinal native plants were growing wild in Patuxet before 1620? What did the Pilgrims grow in their gardens and why? Add a bit of green to your kitchen while learning about 17th-century medicinal herbs and how the Pilgrims would have been balancing their humors. Plant your own herbal mason jar to kickstart your kitchen garden.

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pilgrim man works in garden
Museum Educator weeds garden on Historic Patuxet Homesite.