Long Creek Homestead

Long Creek Homestead sits on twenty-five acres of mixed woodland, food forests, and gardens. It celebrates more than 100 varieties of fruits and useful perennials. Landscapes are ecologically designed to harvest rainwater, build soil, and balance insect populations. Living willow dome and circular straw-bale home is open to explore. A small on-site nursery will be open and selling paw paws, elderberries, chokeberries, juneberries, ornamental willows, inoculated mushroom logs, etc.

Directions: Parking at Brook Hill Church, 8946 Indian Springs Road, Frederick. Volunteer will direct visitors down a lane to the gardens and house. Visitors with handicap needs can drive directly to the gardens.

Open Days 2018: June 2
Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Admission to this garden is $7 for members and nonmembers without tickets purchased in advance.

Buy discounted admission tickets in advance! They can be used at most Open Days to make garden visiting easier.
Nonmembers get 6 visits for the price of 5 with advanced ticket book purchase.
Members get 50% off ONLY by purchasing ticket books in advance.

 Digging Deeper program: Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist.
3 p.m.
Join Michael Judd, permaculture teacher, ecological garden designer, and author of Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist, for a tour of his homestead. Often used as his outdoor classroom, this private landscape includes several food forests, raised bed swales, and hugelkultur raised beds, that passively harvest water and create microclimates to boost food production. A range of fruits, nuts, vegetables and medicinals are grown across the site.
Garden admission is $7 per person and children 12 & under are free. There is no additional fee for this program. Call 1(888) 842-2442 or email opendays@gardenconservancy.org with questions.