These exciting special workshops require advance registration. Click each workshop title for a full description and pre-registration information.

Note: after purchasing your tickets, please retain your PayPal receipt and bring it to the Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center along with a valid I.D. for admittance.

Seed Savers Monticello Vegetable Garden Tour I
with Pat Brodowski

This tour will offer a special opportunity to explore Jefferson’s lifelong interest in gardening, botany, and agriculture while enjoying the beauty and variety of Monticello’s restored Vegetable Garden. Pat Brodowski, gardener for the historic site…

Seed Savers Monticello Flower Garden Tour II
with Debbie Donley

Explore Jefferson’s lifelong interest in gardening, botany, and agriculture while enjoying the beauty and variety of Monticello’s restored flower gardens during this hour-long tour. Debbie Donley, Monticello’s flower gardener since 2002…

Mainstreaming the Heirloom Vegetable: Historical Narratives, Nutritional Bonanzas
with William Woys Weaver

In this session, food historian, author, and contributing editor for Mother Earth News William Woys Weaver will discuss why heirloom vegetables …

Virginia Cider Making
with Kerry Gilmer and Tom Burford

It was a significant event when Americans began eating their fruit rather than drinking it. Monticello fruit gardener Kerry Gilmer and Tom Burford, the illustrious “Professor Apple” and international authority on apples, will review …

Revolutionary Composting
with Barbara Pleasant
Author of “The Complete Compost Gardening Guide,” and contributing editor for Mother Earth News

Is your compost hidden away in a remote corner, or is it in your garden, where it can enrich the soil as it rots? Do your methods match the materials that are most abundant in your yard? In this lively lecture, …

Hands on Propagation of Woodland Medicinals
with Dr. Jeanine Davis

Learn from an expert how to divide and propagate woodland medicinals like Black Cohosh, …