05/22/2026
Join Franklin County Home Outreach of Maine Extension Volunteers with their One Tomato Project!🍅🤩
Franklin County Home Outreach of Maine Extension Volunteers is offering free cherry tomato seedlings (one per person) along with tips for growing them! To encourage more people to grow their own vegetables, the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Franklin County HOME Volunteers. Through the years, they have distributed cherry tomato seedlings that gardeners used to grow cherry tomatoes.
The One TomatoTM Project is a program aimed at encouraging people to grow at least one tomato in their garden this year. Yes, you heard us – we’re going to get excited over one tomato! Hopefully, your plants will produce more than just one tomato, but we think you should celebrate the difference that one edible tomato makes.
Why just one tomato? One tomato is not expensive to grow, it’s pretty easy, and it can be grown just about anywhere. You can plant a tomato in your garden, in your flowerbed, in a container, a hanging basket, or even on your front lawn. If you don’t like tomatoes, that’s okay! You don’t have to be a tomato lover to join in – the goal is to grow some vegetables, so try out any vegetable you like. You can give any extra to neighbors, local food banks, or maybe there’s a Share Shed nearby!
🗓️Date: Saturday, May 30, 2026
⏰Time: 1:00 p.m
📩📍Location: Farmington Fairgrounds (Starbird Building), 292 High Street, Farmington, ME 04938
📩For more information, contact:
[email protected] or (207) 778-4650
