First Day Of Fall & Granny’s Soup
Today is the first day of fall, but with the high temps we’ve been having it really doesn’t feel like…
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2 Mysteries Solved
Thanks to the detective work of the Blind Pig readers-I was able to solve my 2 mysteries. First up the old…
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Want Tickets To The JCCFS Fall Festival – I’ve Got 4 To Giveaway
I grew up going to the John C. Campbell Folk School’s Fall Festival-most years Pap performed and I usually tagged…
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Cross Pollination Of Heirloom Tomatoes
I’ve done a little homework since Warren ask me if I worried about my heirlooms cross pollinating. I feel a whole…
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Ironweed
Roadsides and fields have put on their purple robe-Ironweed is in full bloom in the southern mountains of Appalachia. I read somewhere that Ironweed got it’s…
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Help Me Solve 2 Mysteries
A good friend recently gave me this old cast iron tea kettle. A lady gave it to him-and told him it was her Grandmother’s-and…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 23
Time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test-take it and see how you do: Laid up Law Let on Lit into…
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Saving Seeds From Heirloom Tomatoes
Like most things in life, when it comes to saving heirloom tomato seeds to grow next year, there are numerous…
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Planting By The Signs For September 2010
The cooler temps we’ve been experiencing set me to thinking about my fall garden. We still have okra, peppers, onions, and a…
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Spotlight On Music In Appalachia – Mountain Music & Medicine Show
One of the things I wanted to accomplish during the Spotlight on Music, was to highlight communities spread through out…
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The Best Heirloom Tomatoes
Last summer was the first year The Deer Hunter and I tried growing heirloom tomatoes. The term-heirloom-refers to tomatoes that are non-hybrid-meaning…
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Spreading The August Love
Time to Spread the Love to all the folks who took the time to comment during the month of August-I…
