Fresh From the Farm Blog

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving according to my calendar! At Fredericksburg Farms we celebrate Turkey Day each year with an all-company pot luck. We fry the turkeys and everyone brings something to share, it is a feast beyond compare and no one goes away hungry. We had the feast this past Monday and have been enjoying Thanksgiving leftovers all week. The downside is they are almost gone, the upside, we get to do it all again tomorrow as we take the day off to celebrate with family and friends. From all of us to all of you, “Happy Thanksgiving, Y’all!”

So what’s the deal with Black Friday and Cyber Monday? It used to be that shoppers would get up in the wee hours and line up outside stores who would schedule special sales on the Friday after Thanksgiving. The stores would open their doors maybe at 2 AM and would offer ridiculously low prices on a certain selection of items that were in limited supply, with the thought that the promotion would get lots of customers into the stores with money to spend, and when the limited deals ran out, they would spend their money on other regularly priced merchandise....

It seems like there is a day for almost anything, and social media promotes them all from Son’s and Daughter’s days to National Hot Dog Day. While those are fun to mark, others seem more important and more worthy of a remembrance. Veteran’s Day is one of the latter. Veterans are all of those men and women who have served our country in the armed forces, whether in times of war or in times of peace. They answered the call to stand ready to defend our country, some were drafted and others volunteered; all left their homes and jobs to...

Introducing our CANDLE CREW! We are so lucky to have the best group of people that work diligently to bring you our hand-crafted Fredericksburg Farms candles and wax melts. They stay busy daily setting out the candle glass, attaching wicks to the bottoms of the glass jars, and then attaching a metal band to each jar that holds the wicks upright as the candles are poured. We use a special soy blend wax that holds the fragrance for a long burning, highly scented candle. Once poured the candles are allowed to cool before being labeled, lidded and packed in cases...

Do you have any special Halloween traditions? One of mine is making homemade popcorn balls. My grandmother always made popcorn balls at Halloween when I was a child. I can see her popping the popcorn in a big heavy saucepan on the stove, then dumping the popped corn in a huge bowl, and lastly, she boiling a sugar syrup and pouring it over the popped corn. Then things happened fast…she buttered her hands and began forming the syrup coated popcorn into balls, placing them on wax paper to cool. When I make them now for our employees, and feel that...