Learn about the food the Washingtons ate and how meals were prepared in the 18th century at George Washington’s Mount Vernon on August 17 & 18, 2024.

Activities are included with general admission:

• Gardens & Landscape Tour
Take a walk through the General’s garden.

• Dining with the Washingtons Tour
Explore how the people who lived at Mount Vernon in the 18th century dined on a tour that takes you to the gardens, salt house, smokehouse, slave quarters, greenhouse, and the Mansion’s kitchen.

• Go Fish
Join the History Interpreters at the Salt House to learn about the role of the smokehouse and salt house in food preservation at Mount Vernon.

• What Grows Here?
History Interpreters will be on hand in the gardens to help you identify what is growing and how the various fruits and vegetables grown at Mount Vernon were cultivated, harvested, and cooked.

• Cherries at Mount Vernon
Visit the Historic Trades staff on the 12-acre field for demonstrations of the uses of preserved fruits.

Pre-registration required; link below.