Cooperative Nurseries

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Eastfield Native Plants

Edgewood Nursery

We are a small plant nursery in Wabanaki Territory aka Falmouth, Maine. We are focused on unusual edible/medicinal plants and local ecotype native plants.

All of our plants are grown in living soil, without the use of artificial fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides or fungicides. We prioritize using locally sourced materials and offer plants in reused pots as much as possible.

We offer plant material in different forms depending on the season and delivery method. Potted and bare-root plants are available for local customers from spring through fall. Bare-root plants are available for shipping in early spring and late fall. Seeds are available locally and through the mail year round. Scionwood and cuttings are available in winter and early spring.

Figwort Farm

Native Haunts

Radical Roots

Radical Roots is a small, Latinx-owned nursery growing cold-hardy, heirloom fruit trees and a wide range of native plants of the Northeast. We grow all of our plants with organic practices, and we grow our woody plants in air-pruning fabric bags that produce healthy, fibrous, non-circling roots. 

We’re passionate about growing healthy plants that enhance the local ecology by improving soil, helping native pollinators thrive, enhancing the beauty and functionality of the landscape, and increasing food sovereignty in the community.

We have several native plant species and rare fruit tree varieties that can be difficult to find commercially, and we love talking to our customers and to help them find the perfect fruit trees or native species to fit their needs! We also sell fresh fruit from the farm when it’s in season: peaches, plums, strawberries, and more! Stop by the nursery in Winterport, Maine on the weekends during the growing season, or order plants directly from the online shop for local pick-up at the farm. 

Whaleback Nursery

We are a small nursery in Limington, within the traditional homelands of the Pequawket tribe in Wabanaki territory. Our focus is on native plant species and locally adapted ecotypes that thrive in southern Maine, alongside edible and ornamental plants that can integrate into these landscapes. Our plants are grown in diverse nursery beds where flowers, shrubs, and trees support one another—fixing nitrogen, hosting fungi, attracting pollinators, and building resilient plant guilds. 

All of our plants are grown in rich, living soil without synthetic additives. We generate our own compost, and use locally sourced wood chips and materials to package our products. We primarily do bare root plants in the early spring and fall, with occasional potted plant sales in May. In addition to plant offerings, we provide consultations, pruning, and installation work, with an emphasis on supporting landscapes that mimic nature to support both humans and wildlife.

Wildside Native Nursery

Honey Petal Plants

Astrid Bowlby, the proprietor of Honey Petal Plants, is a self-taught keen gardener as well as a plants-person and her ideal customer is "any wonderful human that I can inspire to love and plant more plants, right now, in any way possible."

The nursery is low input and continues to make changes in that direction. Water conservation is one example of this. Water is used sparingly and rainwater is collected where possible. There are plans to develop this further. The nursery does use plastic pots and will gladly take them back for re-use. Astrid is researching options for creating cardboard replicas of her square pots so a plant can be slipped out of its plastic pot and get tucked into a compostable one for the customer to take home. That way the plastic stays on the nursery where it belongs. She has invested in heavy duty plant trays which will last for years and years with proper care. Astrid has opted not to use hoop houses, landscape fabric, or heated greenhouses, and the nursery stock is wintered over outdoors or in an unheated shed. It is not that she is against these growing practices, but she has chosen a business model that allows her to avoid them. The nursery is almost peat-free. Astrid uses Organic Mechanics Professional Growers Mix with biochar. This mix is also certified organic. No herbicides, pesticides, or fungicides are used at Honey Petal Plants, including certified organic ones. All of Astrid's partner nurseries are neonicitinoid-free and she fertilizes with organic fish emulsion during the growing season.

Astrid is interested in the many ways we can appreciate and experience plants and avidly researches their contributions to ecology, medicine, foodways, literature, history, and crafts. She encourages lush garden matrices filled with food and habitat for our wild friends as well as for ourselves. For her, beauty is useful and use is beautiful.

Rebel Hill Farm

We are Julie and Pete Beckford. We grow certified organic field-grown perennials in Liberty, Maine. Our specialty is native plants. Interest in native plants is a great, hopeful change in Maine.

Our plants are exceptional in quality.  We have been doing this for over 35 years. The plants are field-grown and overwintered in the ground. They get dug and potted in the spring, so what you get is necessarily hardy, healthy, and robust. Most plants are in gallon size pots or six inch pots. They do not need to be planted right away. We are committed to ecological health in both how we grow plants and what we grow.