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Tyler Credit harvests lemon verbena herbs Wednesday at Shaker Village in New Gloucester. The head gardener for the only active Shaker community in the world says community volunteers will help process the herbs, which will be dried and ground up before being sold at the Shaker store. Credit says lemon verbena was once used in cleaning products, but the herb is used now mostly to make cold tea during the summer months. “It’s a fan favorite around here,” he says. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
Tyler Credit harvests lemon verbena herbs Wednesday at Shaker Village in New Gloucester. The head gardener for the only active Shaker community in the world, said community volunteers will help process the herbs, which will be dried and ground up before being sold in the Shaker store. Credit said lemon verbena was used in cleaning products at the turn of the century, but the herb is primarily used now to make cold tea during the summer months. “It’s a fan favorite around here,” he said. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
Tins of dried herbs sit in old apple crates Wednesday at Shaker Village in New Gloucester. The herbs are grown in the village garden and sold in the store. “Everything is a month early,” the village head gardener, Tyler Credit, said. “I usually pick lavender in July and this year I was picking it in June,” he said. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Daryn Slover always pulls for the underdog - what would you expect from someone that was raised in Cleveland and lives in Lewiston. He drinks cheap coffee and cheap beer so that he can afford to put his...

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