2009 Festival Schedule

Friday, September 11

Heritage Harvest Festival Preview Workshops at Tufton Farm

This afternoon of workshops and tours will highlight the work of the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants at Tufton Farm, and will include tours of the display gardens and nursery, a workshop on herbs and roses, and a program on sustainable gardening practices. Noon-3:30p.m., at Monticello’s Tufton Farm. Free; no registration required. Call (434) 984-9836 for additional information.

Preview Workshop Schedule

  • 12:15 Peggy Cornett, tour of Tufton nursery and gardens
  • 1:15  Dennis Whetzel, The world of herbs
  • 2:00 Ellie Thomas - Sustainable Gardening

HHF Preview Lecture - The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table

This special event will combine a seed-saving tour in the gardens of Monticello with an illustrated lecture by author and heirloom vegetable authority Amy Goldman. She will celebrate the world’s most beautiful fruit in all its glorious diversity. 4p.m., Garden Center, Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center. $35. Tickets available at the door.

Saturday, September 12

Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello’s Montalto 10:00am - 4:00pm

General Admission free. Parking $5 per vehicle. Car-pooling is encouraged.

Come early for the Old Timey Seed Swap 8-10am. And don’t forget the Silent Auction from 10-4.

Darker green boxes indicate premium workshops - don’t forget to pre-register for them!

Lecture Room 1 Lecture Room 2 Buy Fresh Buy Local Tasting Tent Cooking Demo Tent Master Gardener Tent Demo Tent at the Backyard Revolution Exhibitor’s Own Demo Booth Elsewhere
8-9 AM Seed Swap 8-10 AM — Glass Porch
9-10 AM Cider-Making 9-10 AM
10-10:30 AM Grow Medicinal Herbs — Jeanine Davis 10-11 Revolutionary Composting — Barbara Pleasant 10-11 A Culinary Paradox: High-Quality Food That’s Low on the Food Chain — Patricia Stansbury 10-11 Mediterranean Paella with Chef Jade Lourenco 10-10:45 Creating Butterfly Gardens — Barbara Ann Wiederkehr 10-11 Shape Note Singing — Debbie Hunter 10-11 Historic Plants for Today’s Garden — Peggy Cornett 10-11 Meet at CHP booth Bean Seed Saving, Rodger Winn — Glass Porch 10-11
10:30-11 AM
Break 11-11:15 AM Making Sausage with Chef Rachel Kambic 11:00-11:45
11:15-11:45 AM Heirloom Garlic & Onions — Ira Wallace 11:15-12:15 PM Mainstreaming the Heirloom Vegetable: Historical Narratives, Nutritional Bonanzas — William Woys Weaver 11:15-12:15 PM Apples & Cheese — Tom Burford, Kate Collier 11:15-1 PM Xeriscaping Your Garden — Amy Barton Williams 11:15-12:15 PM Medicine-Making 101 — Kathleen Maier 11:15-12:15 PM Figs and Other Fabulous Fruit — Michael McConkey 11:15-12:15 PM Edible Landscaping Booth
11:45-12:15 PM Seasonal Soups with Chef Craig Hartman 12:00-12:45
Break 12:15-12:30 PM
12:30-1 PM Home Scale No-Till Gardening — Cindy Conner 12:30-1:30 Greener Options for Pest Control — Peter Warren 12:30-1:30 Intro to Seed Saving — Terry/Debbie 12:30-1:30 Traditional Hunting Methods — Olin Bare 12:30-1:30 Gourmet Mushroom Cultivation — Mark Jones 12:30-1:30 Sharondale Farm Booth Seed Savers Monticello Vegetable Garden Tour — Pat Brodowski 12:30-1:30 (Meet at Monticello Viz. Center)
1-1:30 PM Preparing a Caponata with Chef Sarah Lanzman 1:00-1:45
Break 1:30-1:45 PM
1:45-2:15 PM Fall and Winter Veggies: Zero Degree Gardening — Ken Bezilla 1:45-2:45 Collecting Heirlooms and Their Stories — David Bradshaw 1:45-2:45 Not Your Grandma’s Greens — Michael Twitty 1:45-2:45 Traditional Fermentation with Ari Daniels 2:00-2:45 Rainwater Harvesting — Alyson Sappington 1:45-2:45 Hands-on Propagation of Woodland Medicinals — Jeanine Davis 1:45-2:45 Montalto Tour — Peter Hatch (meet at CHP booth) 1:45-2:45 Wild Herb Walk — Deborah Judson Ebbets (meet at glass porch) 1:45-2:45
2:15-2:45 PM
Break 2:45-3 PM
3-3:30 PM A Mess of Salad: Provisions Grown in Slave Gardens — Leni Sorensen 3-4 Permaculture: Design for Abundance — David O’Neill 3-4 Herbal High Tea 3-4 Sheet Mulching — Frank Deitle 3-4 Fruit Tasting — Tom Burford 3-4 Vintage VA Apples Booth Seed Savers Monticello Flower Garden Tour — Debbie Donley (Meet at Monticello Viz. Center) 3-4
3:30-4 PM