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by Joshua Bodwell
June, 2008
A Gardener of Earthly Delights
Even in early April—the trees just beginning to bud, the grass more brown than green, and the ground still soggy—a tourist with Pennsylvania plates has pulled to the shoulder of Route 9 in Kennebunk to take a closer look at Snug Harbor Farm.
Dressed in chinos, windbreaker, and wool fedora, the man trains his little camera on the scene: a handful of sheep and miniature horses mixing in a rambling paddock alongside a small, granite-lined pond full of quacking ducks. A massive weeping willow, its serpentine roots exposed at the pond's edge, droops over the menagerie of beasts.
Beyond the paddock and the low-slung, Cape-style white farmhouse and attached barn, Snug Harbor's modest three acres are teaming with activity. Five greenhouses overflow with annuals, perennials, tropicals, trees, shrubs, and topiaries. Herbs and flowers bake in cold frames. And countless birds scurry about, crisscrossing the crushed-stone and slate-slab walkways: chickens, ducks, swans, peacocks, pheasants, and on this day—as the retiree from Pennsylvania snaps away—one angry, head-bobbing turkey and a raft of fluffy brown week-old ducklings. ...
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Saturday April 7th
Time: 1:00 pm
Enjoy cake, coffee and punch!
Don't forget your basket!
Saturday November 26th
Time: 10 am to 4 pm
Snacks and beverages provided
TERRARIUMS - Come join us for a fun terrarium workshop and make your own miniature world. Bring your own container or purchase one of ours. Soil, instruction and moss provided with $15 work shop fee. Plants and tiny terrarium accouterments are available a la carte. A great gift!
WREATHS- Make your own wreath with holiday greens, berries, pine cones and glitter. Instruction is free. Materials for a 12" wreath $15.
BOXWOOD TOPIARY- Small trees made of boxwood greens and floral foam are a beautiful and long lived holiday decoration. They are VERY easy and fun to make. Workshop is $30 for a boxwood tree in a simple terracotta pot.
Pre-registration appreciated.
Saturday And Sunday December 3rd-4th
Artist's Reception Dec. 3rd
Snug Harbor Farm hosts many art classes throughout the growing season. Come view the artist's work and enjoy some food, drink and merriment. Our greenhouses are a sheer delight in cold weather!
October 28th - 30th
4:00PM - 7:30PM
Snug Harbor Farm
Halloween decorations, light refreshments and scary good fun!
1:00pm
An old fashioned egg hunt for children and adults! Come and enjoy some Easter cake, coffee and punch. The hunt starts promptly at 1:00 pm. Bring your basket! This will be fun.
Kennebunk, ME
May Day Parade hat booth. Paper hats and flowers for sale or make your own with the Snug Harbor staff.
visit www.Kennebunkdowntown.com >
Lion Rock Farm, Sharon, Connecticut
Rare plant and garden antique sale to benefit Women's Support Services of northwest Connecticut. Visit our booth. We bring only our best plant stock and terracotta to this event.
visit www.tradesecretsct.com >
Artist's Party Sat. June 25 • 6:00-8:00pm
Invitational sculpture show installed at the farm. Wander our grounds and discover art in both likely and surprising places.
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Passionate local gardeners open their properties to the public. The tour benefits Child Abuse Prevention Council of York County.
visit www.kidsfreetogrow.org >
Reservations by Aug. 7th
Snug Harbor Farm
Stroll from greenhouse to greenhouse sampling locally grown foods and wines. Eat vegetables raised at Snug Harbor Farm. Enjoy 'Flora!' works on paper and canvas featuring, what else, plants. A fun and romantic evening with proceeds to benefit York Count Food Rescue. Art show runs thru October 2nd.
Lewiston High School, Lewiston, ME
Informative workshops for gardeners organized by the University of Maine Extension Service. Don't miss the hands on topiary workshop with Tony Elliott. You will enjoy this!
visit www.extension.umaine.edu >
Visit our booth #734. Excellent selection of topiary, unusual annuals, tropicals, terracotta and garden ornaments. See our container display!
Ct. Convention Center
Come to our booth # 1357 for a taste of Snug Harbor. Plants and terracotta for connoisseurs.
Established in 1991 in Kennebunk Maine.At Snug Harbor Farm the intent is to provide plant enthusiasts with healthy, well grown, interesting plant material and unique garden accessories all with an "old world" style. In following this shf grows a wide variety of unusual annuals, perennials, trees and shrubs. Open year round there is always something to find whether it's from out of one of the greenhouses or "The Shop". The topiaries at The Farm are grown in custom hand thrown terra cotta. Imported terra cotta and cast stone planters are always available. An integral part of the business also includes landscape consultation/design and installation as well as landscape gardening.
The Farm is open Mon-Sat 9-5 (Nov-March 9-dusk) and Sun 9-3Seasonal Photos.
