Monticello Farm & Garden Fig Preserves

Monticello Farm & Garden Fig PreservesThomas Jefferson's passion for figs helped propagate this variety in Virginia and possibly elsewhere in the United States. In 1809, Jefferson wrote to Dr. William Thornton, a close friend and architect of the Capitol in Washington D. C.: "I will take some occasion of sending you some cuttings of the Marseilles fig, which I brought from France with me, & is unquestionably superior to any fig I have ever seen." Our small batch fig preserves are made

Our bookstand is a line-by-line reproduction of the original

stretchy cotton blend

hummingbirds and butterflies

This magnificent Southern tree

Auslin reminds us that this enduring document was not just a call for freedom and equality but an eloquent statement of the principles that bind us together

and the relationship between her work and its institutional venues

" The genius of the Declaration and Jefferson's later writings amply confirmed Adams's judgment

Cercis siliquastrum

What is a Jefferson Cup used for

This Musk-Noisette hybrid was bred in France before 1829 by Jean Laffay (1795-1878)

cone-like fruits turn pale green to pink in fall

first described as Brauneria pallida and Rudbeckia pallida by English botanist Thomas Nuttall in the early 1800s