Picking Blackberries
Today’s guest post was written by Charles Fletcher. Blackberry Cobbler written by Charles Fletcher There are many ways to…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Off is Anywhere but Here
off = away from here. “Jane’s oldest son moved off and made a doctor. He never did come back.”…
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Blackberry Jelly
Every summer we have a laundry list of items we want to make sure to put up for the coming…
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Some Dark Holler
The song Some Dark Hollow has been recorded by too many people to count. Everybody from The Grateful Dead to…
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It’s Christmas in July!
The old saying Christmas in July means something happened smack dab in the middle of the summer that rates right…
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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…
