Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello

Friday Premium Programming

Friday, 9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.

• Fall Planting & Winterizing Your Garden
• Making & Using Herbal Oils & Salves
• Naturescape Your Yard
• Succession Planting for Continuous Vegetable Harvests
• Thomas Jefferson’s Fruit Garden

Friday, 10:15 a.m.–11:15 a.m.

• Fun with Fermentation
• GROW BIOINTENSIVE® Sustainable Mini-farming
• Heirloom Garlic & Onions: How to Grow these Culinary Essentials
• Make Your Garden Work for You
• Thomas Jefferson & Natural History Woodland Walk

Friday, 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

• Hens in the Hood & Broilers in the Backyard: Practical Advice for Raising Chickens for Eggs & Meat
• Seed Saving for the Home Gardener
• Seed Saving in the Monticello Vegetable Garden
• Uncommon Common Vegetables: Heirlooms that Shine in the Kitchen
• Vinegar Making Basics

Friday, 12:45 p.m.–1:45 p.m.

• Backyard Revolution’s “Homesteading Basics” Track One: Growing & Eating Fresh Food Year Round
• Creating Abundance with Permaculture
• Farming for Pollinators
• The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
• Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Vegetable Garden

Friday, 2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.

• Backyard Revolution’s “Homesteading Basics” Track Two: Growing Healthy Animals & Building Healthy Soil
• New Frontiers in Organic Gardening
• The Small-Scale Poultry Flock, An All-Natural Approach to Raising Chickens and Other Fowl for Home and Market Growers
• Thomas Jefferson & Natural History Woodland Walk
• Traditional Breadmaking: Sourdough

Friday, 3:15 p.m.–4:15 p.m.

• Backyard Revolution’s “Homesteading Basics” Track Three: Sustainable Fossil Fuel Free Farmsteading
• Best Fruit Tree Varieties for the Mid-Atlantic
• Common Nutritive Herbs for Promoting Family Health
• Hands-On How to Propagate Your Own Woodland Botanicals
• Monticello Herbs & their Uses

Saturday Premium Programming

Saturday, 9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.

• Chickens in the Garden
• Home Grown Hops
• Solar Food Drying
• The Pantry-Driven Garden
• Thomas Jefferson & Natural History Woodland Walk
• Virginia Cider Making

Saturday, 10:15 a.m.–11:15 a.m.

• Easy Fall Planted Cut Flowers from Seed
• How to Brew Lacto-Fermented Beverages
• Introduction to Mushroom Culture
• Landscaping with Native Plants: Healing Our Home Turf
• Monticello Herbs and their Uses

Saturday, 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

• Cooking with Herbs, Fresh & Dried
• Hens in the Hood & Broilers in the Backyard: Practical Advice for Raising Chickens for Eggs & Meat
• Seed Saving in the Monticello Vegetable Garden
• Small Space Gardening
• Uncommon Common Vegetables: Heirlooms that Shine in the Kitchen

Saturday, 12:45 p.m.–1:45 p.m.

• Be a Plant Doctor. No Ph.D. Required
• Gardening Under Cover
• Getting Started with Beekeeping: The First Year in the Life of a Beehive
• Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Vegetable Garden
• United Plant Savers: Promoting Stewardship of At-Risk Native Medicinal Herbs

Saturday, 2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.

• Farming for Pollinators
• Old Plants in a New Land, the History & Stories of America’s First Recorded Herbal Immigrants
• Seed Saving for the Home Gardener
• Seed Stories
• Thomas Jefferson & Natural History Woodland Walk

Saturday, 3:15 p.m.–4:15 p.m.

• The Cooking Gene: Bringing Food & Family to the Table & Garden 
• Edible Forest Gardening: From Food to Farmacy
• Great Gardens from Great Plant Collectors 
• Seed Saving in the Monticello Vegetable Garden
• Transition to a More Rural, Sustainable Lifestyle