The garden is located in front of the smoke sauna building called Tuomisto. It was renovated in 2023–2024. It  features about 40 traditional plants that grow locally, arranged in five beds: 

• Folk healer’s medicinal herb bed 

• Vegetable garden 

• Potato and hop beds 

• Apple trees 

• Local perennials

These plants represent the useful and ornamental species from the 1700s and 1800s. The garden was  designed by museum gardener Anna Kamara. 

The folk healer’s plants include wild species such as heather (Calluna vulgaris), wormwood (Artemisia  absinthium), St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum), nettle (Urtica dioica), marsh Labrador tea  (Rhododendron tomentosum), and mullein (Verbascum thapsus), among others. 

In the vegetable garden grows the early potato variety “Timo,” a result of continuous crop development work  from the 1970s, developed by plant science professor Eero Varis from Konnevesi. 

An old rare potato variety is “Vaaniin Herkku,” brought to Finland as a souvenir by soldiers returning from the  war between Sweden and Prussia (1757–1762), part of the Seven Years’ War in Central Europe. 

The strawberry variety is “Ukkomansikka” (Fragaria moschata), introduced to Finland in the 1700s. This variety is dioecious, meaning male and female flowers grow on separate plants. Later, more productive varieties have  been bred from it.