Do You Cut Back Your Squash Plants?
When I returned from vacation, more than a few of my squash and zucchini plants were suffering from the abundant…
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5 Things
1. Canning and preserving knowledge is being passed along to the next generation at our house this summer. It makes…
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Make Pickles with Me!
14 Day Pickles are my favorite. They are without a doubt the best sweet pickle I’ve ever eaten-sweet and really crisp….
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Deputizing Sow True Seed Kale Reporters @ Large
As you already know, Sow True Seed signed on to sponsor the Blind Pig & the Acorn Garden again this year. But…
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Preserving Green Beans with Salt
Back in December, Don Casada was in England working when he met Jeanne Page. They got to talking about gardening and…
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Dance Musicians Week 2015
Chatter and Chitter just finished up a week long class at the John C. Campbell Folk School-Dance Musicians Week. In…
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Corn from Tomotla
The Cherokee Herald (Murphy, N.C.) newspaper in its June 17, 1874, issue ran an advertisement that asserted, “It has been ascertained that…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – You can be a Firefighter
Children in Appalachia learning about what it takes to be a firefighter. Tipper Appalachia Through My Eyes – A series of…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 79
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. Take it and see how you do! Spraddle Spread Square dab Squinch …
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The Lands Of Home-Again
The Lands of Home-Again Far away the birds fly toward the forest’s quiet vales; Above the fields the mountains rise…
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Chocolate Zucchini Cake
I’m up to my ears in zucchini, but I’m not complaining one bit! I love it about any way you…
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Thank God for the U.S.A.
Charles Fletcher’s moving post about the meaning behind the fourth of July got me to singing an old song Pap…
