Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello

Mountaintop Tasting

Grand Preview Dinner
& Festival VIP Pass

Friday Premium Workshops & Lectures

Saturday Premium Workshops & Lectures

Saturday General Admission

New! Plan your day with a Harvest Picnic at the Garden Terrace Tent

2012 Slideshow

Grand Preview
Dinner & Festival VIP Pass

Dinner, 6:30 pm to 9 pm, Friday

VIP Pass, 9 am to 6:30 pm, Saturday

Grand Preview Dinner with

Dr. Cary Fowler

of the Global Crop Diversity Trust

&

Steve Bender

of Southern Living

cary fowler

Reservations required.

View our 2012 Festival Photo Slideshow

2012 Slideshow

Schedule

Please be advised that workshops in the Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center are a 15 minute walk or shuttle ride from the mountaintop festival site. Please plan your schedule to allow for travel time.

Friday, September 6: Premium Workshop Schedule

	Woodland Pavilion, Visitor Center	Classroom 5, Visitor Center	Classroom 6, Visitor Center	Classroom 7, Visitor Center	Fish Pond, Mountaintop
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.	Herb Box on a Budget Althea & Matthew Raiford $10	Backyard Revolution’s Growing a Nation Presents: Small Scale Cheese-Making in the Home Kitchen Anne Buteau $15	Creating Abundance with Permaculture Christine Gyovai $10	Producing Plentiful Asian Greens Pam Dawling $10	Thomas Jefferson’s Fruit Garden Gabriele Rausse $15
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.	Backyard Revolution’s Growing a Nation Presents: Creating the Family Homestead Adrienne Young-Ramsey $10	Easy Fermentation Dawn Story $10	Native American Herbs of Flavor & Fragrance Dr. Arthur O. Tucker $15	The New Victory Garden: Harmonizing Vegetables & Flowers Joe Brunetti & Erin Clark $10	Thomas Jefferson & Natural History Woodland Walk Jerry Therrien $15
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Backyard Revolution’s Growing a Nation Presents: How to Build a Pole Barn Luke Ramsey $10	Vinegar-Making Basics Gabriele Rausse $15	The Basics of Seed Saving Rodger Winn $10	Grow a Sustainable Diet Cindy Conner $10	Monticello Herbs & Their Uses Lily Fox-Bruguiere $15
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.	Backyard Revolution’s Growing a Nation Presents: Harmonious Herd Management for Land & Animals Ben Coleman $10	Plowing with Pigs & Other Farmstead Solutions Hank Will $10	Native Medicinals: Making Medicine & Creating Sanctuaries Kathleen Maier $10	Chicken Whispering: Discover the Chicken You Never Knew Patricia Foreman $10	Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden Peter Hatch $15
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.	Maintaining a Bee Yard during Times of Adversity Paul Legrand $15	Heirloom Garlic & Perennial Onions: How to Grow These Culinary Essentials Ira Wallace $10	The Small-Scale Poultry Flock: An All-Natural Approach to Raising Chickens & Other Fowl for Home & Market Growers Harvey Ussery $15	Growing a Better Organic Food Garden Barbara Pleasant $15	Thomas Jefferson & Natural History Woodland Walk Peggy Cornett $15
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.	Growing Your Own Woodland Botanicals Jeanine Davis $15	Common Nutritive Herbs for Promoting Family Health Krista & Rob Rahm $10	Regionally Adapted Plants Kathy Jentz $10	Tomatoes for Southeast Gardens: Colors, Flavors, Stories Craig LeHoullier $10	Seed Saving in the Monticello Vegetable Garden Pat Brodowski $15

Saturday, September 7: Premium Workshop Schedule

	Woodland Pavilion, Visitor Center	Classroom 5, Visitor Center	Classroom 6, Visitor Center	Classroom 7, Visitor Center	Fish Pond, Mountaintop	Vegetable Garden Tent, Mountaintop
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.	Tomatoes for Southeast Gardens: Colors, Flavors, Stories Craig LeHoullier $10	Mushrooms & Useful Plants: Fungal Allies Mark Jones $15	All Things Lavender Nicole Schermerhorn $10	Grow a Sustainable Diet Cindy Conner $10	Thomas Jefferson & Natural History Woodland Walk Jerry Therrien $15	Virginia Cider Making Chuck & Charlotte Shelton $15
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.	Feeding the Poultry Flock Entirely from Home Resources Harvey Ussery $15	Putting By: An Introduction to Home Canning Leni Sorensen $10	Innovative Home Composting Barbara Pleasant $15	Succession Planting for Continuous Vegetable Harvests Pam Dawling $10	Monticello Herbs & Their Uses Lily Fox-Bruguiere $15	Heirloom Apple & Artisanal Cheese Tasting Tom Burford & Gail Hobbs-Page $15
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Propagating Fruit Trees Alexis Zeigler $10	Elderberry Syrup & Other Elixirs for Immune Health Kathleen Maier $10	Local Gardening: Solving Common Challenges Kathy Jentz $10	Grow Great Spring Flowers with Fall Plantings Lisa Mason Ziegler $10	Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden Peter Hatch $15
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.	The Flora of Virginia: Worth the 250 Year Wait Marion Lobstein $10	Essentials of Cheese-Making Gail Hobbs-Page $15	Luffa: Food, Medicine, Beauty Product, & Scouring Pad Jeanine Davis $15	Apple Varieties for Organic Orchards Tom Burford $10	Seed Saving in the Monticello Flower Garden Debbie Donley $15
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.	Native American Herbs of Flavor & Fragrance Dr. Arthur O. Tucker $15	The Basics of Seed Saving Rodger Winn $10	The Sustainable Farm Lifestyle Michael Levatino $10	Growing Great Greens Year-Round Cindy Brown $10	Thomas Jefferson & Natural History Woodland Walk Peggy Cornett $15
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.	Bee-ginning Beekeeping Paul Legrand $15	Seasonal Cooking: Extending the Harvest Gay Beery $10	Planning a Sustainable Food System Tony Kleese $10	Apple Varieties for Cider- & Pie-Making Tom Burford $10	Seed Saving in the Monticello Vegetable Garden Pat Brodowski $15

Saturday, September 7: General Admission Schedule, Free Workshops

9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.	Seed Swap Rodger Winn	How to Gross $1.00 Per Square Foot on Your Small Farm Clifton A. Slade	New Dimensions in Garden Art Dr. Arthur O. Tucker
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.		The Future of Small Farms Forrest Pritchard	Passalong Plants Steve Bender
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.		Selecting the Right Land and Location for Your New Farm Sue Ellen Johnson	Can the Sweet Corn Hank Will	Green Up Your Home & Town – Beauty & Benefits Barbara Hobens
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.			Extending the Harvest- Garden Fresh Eating All Year Ira Wallace	Planning Your Garden for Seed Saving Grant Olson	Maize, The Mother Corn Kelley Wilkinson
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.				Fall & Winter Veggies: Zero Degree Gardening Ken Bezilla	A Duo of Tomato Salads Miriam Rubin
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.			The Multi-Functional Homestead Greenhouse Harvey Ussery	Gardening With and For Chickens Patricia Foreman & Oprah Hen-Free, Celebrity Chicken	Why We Eat What We Eat Michele Kayal, Bonny Wolf, & Domenica Marchetti