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Mark your calendars!
The Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello
Saturday, September 21st, 2019
all inclusive tickets & parking with continuous shuttles from Piedmont Community College
 Stop by the Tasting Tent for some exciting and exotic garlic, perennial onion and shallot varieties, both roasted and raw, from the team at Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. There's only one way to learn which types you prefer ... by tasting them!
Nothing says summer like a vine-ripened tomato. Stop by the Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Tastings to sample the "heirloom tomato classics:" the old-time favorite red, pink, and "black" beefsteak tomatoes (as well as lesser-known family heirlooms). Taste delicious melons, roasted sweet potatoes, fresh ginger, spicy turmeric and savory peppers. Pick your favorites to grow next season!
We hope you'll join us at this special pre-festival workshop:
In Defense of Okra
Friday, September 20th, 2019 | 1:30 PM – 3 PM | Monticello
Join Chris Smith, author of the newly released book The Whole Okra: A Seed to Stem Celebration, for an interactive and entertaining exploration of the culinary (and non-culinary) uses of okra. Having grown 125 varieties, Smith will share and sample many of the incredible uses of the plant, including okra kimchi, pickled and fermented okra, okra flower tea, okra-seed coffee and okra oil — not to mention the world-renowned delicacy, okra marshmallows. Take home delicious recipes that will have you profusely apologizing for ever uttering the word “slimy” in its presence.
If you like okra this is a can’t miss! If you don’t like okra, this is the perfect opportunity to give it another chance.
How Does Food Justice Show Up in Your Community?
Saturday, September 21st | 10:30 – 11:30 AM | Harvest Tent, Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello
It is often said that food is the common denominator that brings people together. Yet we are finding that food can either improve health outcomes or cause health problems, especially in marginalized communities. How can we work together to fix a food system that is broken? Or is it broken?
Join nationally celebrated food justice icons and growers Karen Washington and Jovan Sage as they share how they connect their communities to fresh, locally grown food. They’ll be joined in conversation by local food activist Richard Morris, who will describe work being done through the Urban Agriculture Collective of Charlottesville to improve food equity and enhance the quality of life in our city. Come learn how food can heal communities and unite us together in a common goal of better health, social justice and well-being!
Included with your general admission to the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello.
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Softneck (Braidable) Garlic
Yellow Potato Onions
Asiatic & Turban Garlic
Elephant Garlic
Grey Griselle Shallots
Egyptian Walking Onions
