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Monticello's Brandon Dillard discusses the labor required for maintaining Monticello's vegetable garden, conducted for many years under the direction of Wormley Hughes. A grandson of Elizabeth Hemings, Hughes was an enslaved worker who was a skilled gardener and was instrumental in many of the landscaping changes at Monticello and Jefferson’s surrounding properties.