Radical Roots Nursery

09/25/2026

08/30/2026

Little fungal friend spotted among the moss in the woods after a little drizzle of moisture 💛

08/29/2026

Enjoying the abundance of late summer - loads of plums, pears, apples, and blooms! Right now we're taking pre-orders for the upcoming sale at Native Gardens of Blue Hill, and our next event will be the Common Ground Block Party on Maine Street in Waterville, Friday the 4th from 4-7pm! We'll bring some plants and some planty art (prints and cards) for that one ✨️ 🌱 🎊

Spotted Joe Pye W**d, Eutrochium maculatum

Wild senna, Senna hebecarpa

Swamp rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos

Anise hyssop, Agastache foeniculum

08/15/2026

We love letting our garden in front of the house grow a little wild. This is our cheery yellow corner with big lush goldenrod, brown eyed Susan, evening primrose, kale, and a little lanceleaf coreopsis hiding in there. You can never have too many yellow flowers! The pollinators love it too. We also let mint go wild around the doorway so every time you walk through the threshold you get a little aromatherapy 😌



Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)

Partridge pea, the only annual we sell because it's a beautiful, native, self-seeding nitrogen fixer!

08/11/2026

Baby monarch caterpillars are here! 🥹 I may have been stalking them this morning... We've been seeing the monarch butterflies visiting the nursery, and the caterpillars only take 3-5 days to hatch. Here they are munching on Common Milkw**d. We're honored to host these cuties via the various Asclepias species we have here on the farm. At the moment we have Common milkw**d and butterfly w**d (asclepias tuberosa) available for sale.

This is why we don't use pesticides on our native plants. 🐛🦋💜 Instead, we try to maintain plenty of habitat and forage for beneficial insects, to keep populations in balance, and we manually remove non-native pest insects.

08/07/2026

We'll be at Hampden Farmer's Market today 2-5:30 with loads of plums! Early Golden and Methley. See you there! We'll bring some plants too 🌱

fruit

08/01/2026

We're back open for regular weekend retail hours on weekend! (Sat/Sun 9-5) AND our apricot, plum, and peach trees are now available! 🌳 you can check out the available varieties on the website shop. It's still a great time to plant, so get em while you can! All are cold-hardy for Maine and the rest of New England. Swipe to see the newest members of the farm looking very adorable, very demure.

Apricots

Plums

Peaches

Pipsqueak and Violet! 🥚🥚🦆

07/04/2026

We'll be open by appointment only for the month of July! You can make an appointment to shop in person by sending us an email, reaching out through our website, sending us a message on here, whatever works! You can also still order online and then set up a time to pick up the order from the farm. We'll resume our regular Sat/Sun retail hours in August for the rest of the season.

Obligatory elderberry pics from our biggest and eldest in bloom 🥰

Spirea blooming

06/27/2026

Hairy beardtongue (Penstemon hirsutus) -- this plant is such a sensory delight. I love seeing the shades of purpley pink blooms, touching the fuzzy soft stems, and watching the bees crawl into the tubular flowers to forage for nectar. Can grow in shade to full sun, and it's drought tolerant 🌱.

06/19/2026

We're very excited to be part of the new Maine Native Plants Cooperative! For those who aren't familiar with us, Radical Roots Nursery is a latinx-owned native plant and fruit tree nursery based in Winterport (Wabanaki territory). Our top priorities are ecosystem friendly growing practices, healthy plants, helping folks find species they didn't know they love, and promoting food sovereignty and biodiversity. We grow perennials, shrubs, and trees in sizes ranging from 1-gal to 3-gal containers, and we grow our woody plants in air-pruning fabric bags that produce healthier roots. Scroll for pictures of the team: Sam, Garrett, and our farm dog Sofia.

Our nursery is open Saturdays and Sundays 9-5 or by appt. in winterport during the growing season. You can also order online on our website (radicalrootsnursery.com) for pick-up at the farm 🌱 our other services include: consulting, grafting workshops, landscape installations, and fruit tree pruning 🌳