Fresh From the Farm Blog

Candy Corns, Ghosts, Bats, and Pumpkins! Fredericksburg Farms is ready for Halloween and the ever-busy freshie team has cooked up these spookily cute new freshies, a white ghost with sparkly eyes that is only” in it for the boos,” a nice fat pumpkin that is surely “the best of the patch,” a sparkly black bat that really likes to “hang around,” and a yummy smelling candy corn with an attitude! WE are ready, are you? Trick or Treat. Freshies For Halloween Collection

It is Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta week and that is where we are headed with kids and grandkids in tow. Watching giant hot air balloons fill, grow large, and glow in the early morning darkness fills me with excitement and anticipation and I am in no way a kid except at heart! Ever since we came to the Fiesta 9 years ago, we talked about bringing our adult children to see and experience this fun event. We have waited long enough now that we get to bring grandchildren as well, and I can’t wait to see their faces as balloons in...

Oktoberfest is here! This weekend Fredericksburg will be celebrating the quintessential German fall festival and polka music, lederhosen, dirndls, wurst, beer and strudel will be plentiful in our little burg’s Marketplatz beginning on Friday and continuing until the tuba’s last note on Sunday. Can you say OOMPAH, do the chicken dance, waltz, or schottische? No worries, just come and dive in to the experience and you will leave with just a little German in your step! Wilkommen and Prost! Click HERE for details!

The temperature has been below 100 degrees for an entire week and the Texas Hill Country even received some rain in the last 5 days. Our granddaughter has asked me to buy pumpkins and to “cook something good”, so maybe it is actually time to start fall holiday decorating and to start to bake things for the freezer. It seems like the year just races from September 1 until Christmas. I have been freezing “too ripe” bananas all summer as well as grated zucchini, so I will start with that. Banana nut bread, zucchini bread and pumpkin cranberry bread will...

Texas high school football never disappoints…from the plays on the field, to cheerleaders doing handsprings on the sidelines, and the marching band, flag corps, and dance team taking the field at halftime to entertain the fans in the stands. Then there is the fun of going to the concession stand for hot dogs and nachos slathered in cheese and trying to balance these taste treats while climbing the stairs returning to one’s seat. Friday night lights in an outdoor stadium, chatting with friends, while keeping a loose eye on younger kids running crazy with their school friends giving high fives...