Eye-spy with my little eye, OUR BOOK! A fun game we like to play when going into book stores at historic sites is to see if our book is for sale. Thus far we have found it in Sturbridge Village, a local bookstore in Concord MA, The Smithsonian Museum of America History, and now Mt. Vernon!
Small cabin where field slaves would live and make their food. Their own gardening and house work had to be done outside their work day, which was from sun up to sun down.
Horses would walk on the wheat and the chaff would fall through wooden slats and be collected below. G.W. came up with this design himself.
George Washington was also a farmer and used innovative methods to rotate crops and harvest.
When they restored this garden, they read books about Colonial gardening to get an idea of what George Washington's garden might have looked like.
