Thomas Jefferson’s garden was a vast, beautiful science experiment involving over 300 varieties of 90 different plants. And no gardening detail was too small for Jefferson to note in the gardening journal he kept for nearly 60 years.
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Thomas Jefferson’s Vegetable Garden: A Thing Of Beauty And Science : The Salt : NPR
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American Icons: Monticello
Thomas Jefferson was as passionate about building his house as he was about founding the United States; he designed Monticello to the fraction of an inch and never stopped changing it. Yet Monticello was also a plantation worked by slaves, some of them Jefferson’s own children.
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