Gardens
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Four MIle Historic Park is also home to two different gardens. In between the house and the beehouse is the garden known as the kitchen garden. Planted and maintained by Four Mile’s volunteers, this garden is home to many vegetables and herbs that would be found in pioneer farms, like corn and tomatoes. Next to the house is a small garden known as the shade garden. Many herbs are planted there, which would be dried and used in cooking during cooler weather. Other plants were used for dying fabric and yarn, as well as medicinal purposes. These two gardens were constructed on the property in the 1980s.
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Four Mile Herb Garden
Four Mile Herb Garden
Four Mile Kitchen Garden
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Four Mile Historic Park Collections
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Four Mile Historic Park Collections
Four Mile Historic Park Collections
Four Mile Historic Park Collections