Monticello French Sumatra Coffee

Monticello French Sumatra CoffeeJefferson enjoyed the coffee houses of Williamsburg and Paris, and served coffee at the Presidents House, Poplar Forest, and Monticello. He estimated that a pound of coffee a day was consumed at Monticello during his retirement, served at breakfast and most likely after dinner. Our French Sumatra is locally roasted and ground for us in the Blue Ridge Mountain foothills. Certified organic, 8 oz.

Description: Small white and yellow flowers lined up on stalks somewhat resembling pantaloons on a clothesline

Twelve-ounce etched whiskey glasses feature phrases from the Declaration of Independence and the signatures of John Adams

He attends a Masonic cornerstone-laying ceremony for the nascent Central College's first pavilion early in October 1817 and is greatly pleased by the passage on 21 February 1818 of a law establishing a commission to plan a new state university

pea-like flowers in clusters above shrubby plants with bright blue-green foliage

Hardy biennial with spikes of tubular purple flowers

It was introduced to Europe and Britain by 1824

was found in the gardens of France and Britain since the sixteenth century when they were grown in the medicinal gardens of monasteries

Jefferson-documented: This plant was documented by Thomas Jefferson in his Garden Book

it is easy to see that we consider no garden complete without it

orange-brown disk

when he retired from public service and could enjoy his creation

Volume Nine of the project documenting Thomas Jefferson's last years presents 523 documents from 1 September 1815 to 30 April 1816