Thomas Jefferson's Revolutionary Garden
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Channel: Cornell University · 2012 · Education
Thomas Jefferson wrote that "the greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture," and his 1,000-foot-long, terraced vegetable garden at Monticello was an experimental laboratory, an Ellis Island of 330 varieties of vegetables. Peter Hatch examines a full sample of Jefferson's favorite vegetables by discussing both how they were grown and prepared and their history and place in the horticultural world of early nineteenth-century Virginia.
