The Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello

The 2009 Festival was a great success! Thank you, friends, for all your support and help.
Let’s make it happen again on September 11, 2010. Mark your calendars!
Click here to see pictures from the 2009 Festival.
The Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello is a family friendly, educational event that brings together a regional community of organic and sustainable gardening proponents, heirloom plant preservationists and seed savers. 2009’s event was held on Montalto, the “high mountain” that rises 400 feet above Thomas Jefferson’s gardens at Monticello and offered food tastings, a seed swap, workshops, demonstrations and other hands-on-activities.
ENGAGEin exciting children’s activities presented by the Master Gardeners
how to grow heirloom varieties, save your own seeds, and control pests without chemicals.
dozens of varieties of tomatoes, apples, garlic, and other fruits and vegetables.
TOUR
Jefferson’s Vegetable and Flower Gardens just down the mountain at Historic Monticello.
the heritage produce growing contest.

national experts and local natural/organic growers who will join non-profits promoting sustainable agriculture and heirloom seed-saving to educate and inform gardeners from around the region.
seeds, plants, garlic, apples and other produce from local growers and the extensive collection of the Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center for Historic Plants.
Our festival is inexpensive and family-friendly!
2009 PRESENTERS included:
- Amy Goldman - Author of The Heirloom Tomato and president of the Seed Savers Exchange Board
- William Woys Weaver - Food historian, author, contributing editor for Mother Earth News and curator of the Roughwood Seed Collection
- Peter J. Hatch - Author of The Fruits and Fruit Trees of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson and the Origins of American Horticulture, and director of Gardens and Grounds at Monticello
- Barbara Pleasant - Author of The Complete Compost Gardening Guide, and contributing editor for Mother Earth News
- David Bradshaw - Naturalist, professor emeritus of horticulture at Clemson University, and collector of heirloom seeds and their stories
- Jeanine Davis - Author, Growing and Marketing Ginseng, Goldenseal and other Woodland Medicinals
- Peggy Cornett - Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants at Monticello
- Kathleen Maier - Director of Sacred Plant Traditions and co-founder of Virginia Plant Savers
And MORE to be announced, come back soon to learn more!
For more information:
email festival@southernexposure.com
Convenient Parking
Parking in 2009 was $5 per car.

