The Outer Garden at the Ashbel Woodward Museum represents the transition from the structured, domestic "Kitchen Pharmacy" to the broader landscape of a 19th-century New England farmstead. While the Inner Garden focused on immediate bedside remedies, the plants in the Outer Garden often served dual purposes: providing larger-scale medicinal harvests, acting as natural windbreaks or boundary markers, and offering a steady supply of hardy fruits and materials for the household.

In this section of the tour, you will encounter resilient shrubs, woodland perennials, and native species that Dr. Woodward would have relied upon for more intensive preparations, such as syrups, tonics, and winter stores.