For over 20 years, gardeners in Central New York have relied on the Heritage Plant Sale at The Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown for hardy, distinctive plants. On Saturday and Sunday, May 23-24 from 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., gardeners can get an organic jumpstart with seedlings of heirloom varieties of vegetables grown with organic soil and fertilizer. This annual event takes place outside the museum’s main entrance (no admission fee) and proceeds benefit the museum gardens.

Gardeners can purchase plants and cuttings from the museum’s Botanical Specimen Garden. Many of the plants on saleare propagated from hardy, well-established rootstock by Patrick MacGregor, Manager of Interpretation at the museum. Find a wide selection of organic heritage vegetable plants including tomato varieties squash cucumbers and pumpkins.  These varieties are very flavorful and easy to use for collecting your own seed stock for generations to come.

(The sale takes place outside the museum’s main entrance at 5775 State Highway 80, Cooperstown, NY.)