Annual First Parish Plant & Craft Fair

Annual First Parish Plant & Craft Fair The 70th Annual First Parish Plant & Craft Fair is on for Saturday, May 16, 2026 Rain or Shine!

Starting to see some blooms!Time to dig up your heritage perennials for the First Parish Plant and Craft Fair!We will be...
03/31/2026

Starting to see some blooms!Time to dig up your heritage perennials for the First Parish Plant and Craft Fair!
We will be starting to send out folks to dig up gardens starting the weekend of April 18th until the weekend of May 2nd. We have lots of pots! Sign up on online https://www.signupgenius.com/go/904054FADAD2C7-62713410-2026 #/ or contact Paul Vancutsem: [email protected]. If you want to dig up your own- let us know about it too!

We need help in all forms to make the 70th annual Plant and Craft fair happen. Please take a minute to see how you can help either before, during, or after the fair. Please note that there are several days and ways to participate. NOTE: There is a separate Sign-Up Genius for the Bake Sale. There wil...

03/02/2026

We're ramping up! No ramp pun intended. What do you hope to see at our SEVENTIETH fair?!

Now accepting craft vendor applications!
01/10/2026

Now accepting craft vendor applications!

The First Parish Plant & Craft Fair’s longtime tradition began in the early 1950s in the side yard of the Fitch Tavern, where First Parish members the Joslins lived. Avid gardeners, the Joslins along with friends and fellow First Parish members, including Betty Balfour and Eva Schafer, thought it ...

05/18/2025

What a fabulous day yesterday!
Thanks to our volunteers, our donaters, our musicians, and our crafters! Thanks to all of our visitors and customers!
If you didn't get to shop, anything left on the Common is half-price, honor system.

05/16/2025

Our list of vendors in the Bedford Citizen was incomplete! Apologies and a big welcome to Sowing Opportunities, Inc. / Sembrando Oportunidades !

Sowing Opportunities has the mission of self-sustainability through greenhouse agriculture for remote villages and public primary schools in rural northeastern Alta Verapaz, Guatemala

Check out our list of vendors! (ignore the misspellings!)
05/15/2025

Check out our list of vendors! (ignore the misspellings!)

First Parish on the Bedford Common’s annual plant and craft fair returns for its 69th year on Saturday, May 17, running from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., rain or shine. Food, crafts, music, kids activities, and more.

05/15/2025

Rain or Shine!
Saturday - two days from now - come to Bedford Common for community celebration!
Plants, crafts, food*, music, face painting, fun!

05/14/2025

'Researchers from the University of Edinburgh investigated if there might be a link between gardening and changes in intelligence in our lifetimes. The study compared the intelligence test scores of participants at age 11 and age 79. The results showed those who spent time gardening showed [greater lifetime improvement in their cognitive ability](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494424001348) than those who never or rarely did.'

One week from today, the 69th Annual First Parish Plant & Craft Fair! There will be houseplants, but I promise very forg...
05/10/2025

One week from today, the 69th Annual First Parish Plant & Craft Fair! There will be houseplants, but I promise very forgiving ones! Herbs, heritage perennials, veggies, annuals, garden accouterments.

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Bedford, MA
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