Monticello

**Mischka** · August 29, 2007

Heritage Harvest Festival

Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants
Monticello's Tufton Farm
Saturday September 8, 2007, 10am - 4pm

Our own Craig LeHoullier will be there, as well as many other speakers that are also holding workshops. Please check the link below for details.

I will be attending and look forward to meeting some of you there!

http://www.heritageharvestfestival.com/

shelleybean · August 29, 2007

I wanted to go to this so badly and actually planned to until a week or so ago. We're camping that weekend, though right down the road from our house, and it's my husband's birthday and we're supposed to be whooping it up at the campground Saturday night. I just don't see how I can get back in time for this party. I wish they'd have a festival like this every year. I'm disappointed. There were several workshops I wanted to attend.

This party will be fun though. I like camping by the beach.

jcmorse33 · August 30, 2007

Its practically in my own backyard so I plan to be there. Hoping to get a few ideas to improve my garden for next year.

gardenpaws_VA · September 1, 2007

I'll be going also - anybody else from Northern VA on this list who wants to carpool?

**nctomatoman** · September 9, 2007

What a wild, fun, and very, very hot event! Highlights for Sue and I - finally getting to meet a true visionary - Jeff McCormack and his wonderful wife Patty, advancing slides for and enjoying a great dinner on the pedestrian mall in Charlottesville with Diane Whealy, getting to see Rena and Mischka again (and in the case of Mischka, see only - there were so many events going on spread over such a wide area that we never really had a chance to talk!), meeting Gardenpaws....attending a wonderful talk on heirloom apples by Tom Burford (and tasting some as well) - but, man o man, was it hot! I was fortunate to have an early talk - the tent was just on preheat, not yet broil (poor Diane - when she talked it was the broiler!). Anyway, it was quick, it was fun, and we are back home safe and sound. The other good news - people were really excited about the possibilities of the dwarf project - thanks to all SH and NH volunteers - we will end up making available some tomatoes that people are going to LOVE!!!

VGary · September 10, 2007

Craig and Craig, Sounds like the Heritage Harvest Festival was a well received event in spite of the weather. I had talked with Ira Wallace early on and she and her crew were working hard for the Festival. I will see her next month when she visits in Kentucky. Hope to hear more from others who were there; what an opportunity to have all you wonderfull presenters all in one location to share your knowledge/experience.
Gary

remy · September 10, 2007

It sounds like it was a really cool(well hot) event the kind I would love to attend. I see there was a seed swap and everything!
Shelly,
I'm surprised it isn't a yearly thing. Maybe since it went well, they will make it so.
Remy

RPostley · September 10, 2007

Craig, Mischka, et al.-

It was great meeting you both at Monticello! AMEN -- It WAS hot! It seems I was a member of Tomatoville -- I just didn't know it, and didn't have my password... All is well, now.

Gary -- I hate to dissapoint you, but Ira will be unable to get to the Appalachian Heirloom Seed Conservancy conference in October...

**nctomatoman** · September 10, 2007

Hey Roger - it was great meeting you; wish we would have had more time to chat. It was a bit chaotic, but fun! Thanks for the seeds, for attending my talk, for your good questions!

jcmorse33 · September 10, 2007

I had a great time. I enjoyed Craig's presentation and chatting with Rena and Mischka. It was wonderful having a good sized tomato tasting that was close enough for me to make it (I have a 4 month old at home so multi-day trips are not an option). Now I finally know what all the fuss is about with Brandywine! First time I have ever tasted one... along with German Red Strawberry, Yellow Oxheart, Persimmon, Marianna's Peace, Granny Cantrell's German (Pink) Red, Cherokee Purple, Mortgage Lifter, etc.

Now the only problem is going to be deciding how to fit everything I would like to grow into next year's garden...

--Justin

Rena · September 10, 2007

What a beautiful place! We spent an extra day at Monticello home and grounds. My Mom -her husband and the kids LOVED it. For those of you that school at home it is a great field trip to take. I did run into some another family that schools at home

Craig's talk was fantastic. I could tell that the dwarf project was as interesting to everyone there as it is to us here. Lots of questions. I hope Mischka can put it on the forum.
I know everyone said it was hot but our family kept saying how nice the weather was LOL. (My Mom is from Florida

) The tomatoes were beautiful. My Mom went to the lecture on Heirloom Apples and cider making. She said it was incredible! My children did crafts at the craft tables. I think they were ready for my son to leave the craft area

Whole foods had a set up of apples to taste with some free grocery bags. The only problem of the day was lunch (goat burgers)...

I did not even try them. I am open to food but I barely eat chicken so goat was just not in the cards

I could tell the leaves had started to turn. I can only imagine what it looks like in October. Wonderful!!

shelleybean · September 10, 2007

I might have been able to stomach a goat burger if it had been smothered with goat's cheese.

I wish I could have gone. I hope it was successful and they decide to do it more often.

gardenpaws_VA · September 10, 2007

Craig and the (tasting) tomatoes were great, and like Justin, I tried a bunch of tomatoes I'd heard about but not had. My pick to add to the garden next year is German Johnson, but also two peppers (fish pepper from Michael Twitty and a Hungarian paprika which was relatively long and thin, not heart-shaped as I am used to seeing).

I hope Monticello and Southern Exposure will do it again, perhaps with a little more organization and signage. I got to two great workshops, had a 3rd evaporate (?), and was a bit disappointed in the 4th (non-food) class.

**nctomatoman** · September 10, 2007

I actually sent Ira an email asking her to please send a brief survey to at least the speakers - it was a fine event, but it was the first one, and I am sure that all of us who participated have some good ideas on how to make even better, if they choose to do it again (which they should!). I've not heard back from her yet.

**Patrina_Pepperina** · September 10, 2007

I wish I could have been there! It sounds fantastic to have those workshops and speakers, and I would have been tickled pink to hear Craig talk about the Dwarf Project

Patrina

August 29, 2007	#1
Mischka Tomatoville® Administrator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The Bay State Posts: 3,207	Monticello Heritage Harvest Festival Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants Monticello's Tufton Farm Saturday September 8, 2007, 10am - 4pm Our own Craig LeHoullier will be there, as well as many other speakers that are also holding workshops. Please check the link below for details. I will be attending and look forward to meeting some of you there! http://www.heritageharvestfestival.com/ __________________ Mischka One last word of farewell, Dear Master and Mistress. Whenever you visit my grave, say to yourselves with regret but also with happiness in your hearts at the remembrance of my long happy life with you: "Here lies one who loved us and whom we loved." No matter how deep my sleep I shall hear you, and not all the power of death can keep my spirit from wagging a grateful tail.

August 29, 2007	#2
shelleybean Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Virginia Beach Posts: 2,648	I wanted to go to this so badly and actually planned to until a week or so ago. We're camping that weekend, though right down the road from our house, and it's my husband's birthday and we're supposed to be whooping it up at the campground Saturday night. I just don't see how I can get back in time for this party. I wish they'd have a festival like this every year. I'm disappointed. There were several workshops I wanted to attend. This party will be fun though. I like camping by the beach. __________________ Michele

September 9, 2007	#5
nctomatoman Tomatoville® Moderator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Hendersonville, NC zone 7 Posts: 10,385	What a wild, fun, and very, very hot event! Highlights for Sue and I - finally getting to meet a true visionary - Jeff McCormack and his wonderful wife Patty, advancing slides for and enjoying a great dinner on the pedestrian mall in Charlottesville with Diane Whealy, getting to see Rena and Mischka again (and in the case of Mischka, see only - there were so many events going on spread over such a wide area that we never really had a chance to talk!), meeting Gardenpaws....attending a wonderful talk on heirloom apples by Tom Burford (and tasting some as well) - but, man o man, was it hot! I was fortunate to have an early talk - the tent was just on preheat, not yet broil (poor Diane - when she talked it was the broiler!). Anyway, it was quick, it was fun, and we are back home safe and sound. The other good news - people were really excited about the possibilities of the dwarf project - thanks to all SH and NH volunteers - we will end up making available some tomatoes that people are going to LOVE!!! __________________ Craig

September 10, 2007	#6
VGary Tomatoville Honoree Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Louisville, Kentucky Posts: 460	Heritage Harvest Festival Craig and Craig, Sounds like the Heritage Harvest Festival was a well received event in spite of the weather. I had talked with Ira Wallace early on and she and her crew were working hard for the Festival. I will see her next month when she visits in Kentucky. Hope to hear more from others who were there; what an opportunity to have all you wonderfull presenters all in one location to share your knowledge/experience. Gary __________________ *"We believe we mere debtors to God in relation to each other and all men, to improve our Time and Talents in this Life, in that manner in which we might be most useful." Shaker Covenant 1795*

September 10, 2007	#7
remy Buffalo-Niagara Tomato TasteFest™ Coordinator Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Z6 WNY Posts: 2,354	It sounds like it was a really cool(well hot) event the kind I would love to attend. I see there was a seed swap and everything! Shelly, I'm surprised it isn't a yearly thing. Maybe since it went well, they will make it so. Remy __________________ "I wake to sleep and take my waking slow" -Theodore Roethke Yes, we have a great party for WNY/Ontario tomato growers every year on Grand Island! Owner of The Sample Seed Shop

August 30, 2007	#3
jcmorse33 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Central Virginia Posts: 242	Its practically in my own backyard so I plan to be there. Hoping to get a few ideas to improve my garden for next year.

September 1, 2007	#4
gardenpaws_VA Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Northern Virginia, USA - zone 7+ Posts: 161	I'll be going also - anybody else from Northern VA on this list who wants to carpool?

September 10, 2007	#8
RPostley Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: Lexington, KY Posts: 4	Craig, Mischka, et al.- It was great meeting you both at Monticello! AMEN -- It WAS hot! It seems I was a member of Tomatoville -- I just didn't know it, and didn't have my password... All is well, now. Gary -- I hate to dissapoint you, but Ira will be unable to get to the Appalachian Heirloom Seed Conservancy conference in October... __________________ -Roger "I never met a tomato I didn't like -- then I went to a grocery!"

September 10, 2007	#11
Rena Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Warm Springs, GA Posts: 1,421	What a beautiful place! We spent an extra day at Monticello home and grounds. My Mom -her husband and the kids LOVED it. For those of you that school at home it is a great field trip to take. I did run into some another family that schools at home Craig's talk was fantastic. I could tell that the dwarf project was as interesting to everyone there as it is to us here. Lots of questions. I hope Mischka can put it on the forum. I know everyone said it was hot but our family kept saying how nice the weather was LOL. (My Mom is from Florida) The tomatoes were beautiful. My Mom went to the lecture on Heirloom Apples and cider making. She said it was incredible! My children did crafts at the craft tables. I think they were ready for my son to leave the craft area Whole foods had a set up of apples to taste with some free grocery bags. The only problem of the day was lunch (goat burgers)... I did not even try them. I am open to food but I barely eat chicken so goat was just not in the cards I could tell the leaves had started to turn. I can only imagine what it looks like in October. Wonderful!! Last edited by Rena; September 10, 2007 at 05:41 PM.

September 10, 2007	#15
Patrina_Pepperina Cross Hemisphere Dwarf Project™ Moderator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New South Wales, Australia Posts: 3,094	I wish I could have been there! It sounds fantastic to have those workshops and speakers, and I would have been tickled pink to hear Craig talk about the Dwarf Project Patrina __________________ Truth is colourful, not just black and white. PP: 2005