The 58th Annual Plant & Craft Fair, to be held Saturday, May 14, from 10 – 3 at the First Parish on the Common, 75 The Great Road, (Route 4/225 Exit from Route 95/128) Bedford, Massachusetts, features a wide selection of heritage perennials from members’ gardens, specialty annuals, nursery-grown native plants along with hearty locally-grown annuals, perennials, veggie 6-packs and tomato plants, herbs for cooking or to enhance your garden, and shrubs. Come early for the best plants and stay on the Common to peruse the crafts and enjoy the day. You’ll also find more than fifty crafters on the Common as well as a traditional cook-out lunch, an outstanding bake sale and fun for the family: Live music by the Yankee Doodle Dixieland Band, a petting zoo featuring Bedford 4-H kids and their animals, professional face painting and a strolling Transcendentalist to round out the day.  Yes, we said a strolling Transcendentalist – try to find that in the parking lot at Home Depot!

The Annual Plant & Craft Fair is a fundraiser for Bedford’s First Parish on the Common and its work in the community. Free.  For more information, log on to www.uubedford.org/plantfair, email plantfair@uubedford.org, or call 781-275-7994.