On the whole, so far, it’s been a good season for growing, with only a few short stretches of dry weather when it was necessary to spend a morning hauling buckets to the field in the wheelbarrow. For the most part the rain has come when needed and in ample [...]
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Corn the color of sultry blood
Posted in bee-keeping, corn on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Honey bees on the frontier
Posted in bee-keeping, frontier farming on September 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few days ago a new feature appeared in the herb garden in the fort, an 18th-century style stick beehive, a skep, courtesy of our senior interpreter, Judy Wilson. There are no plans at this point of actually introducing bees, because none of us on the staff is sufficiently knowledgeable in beekeeping to undertake the [...]
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Recent Posts
- Squire Miller killed in Shawnee attack; Mistress Rebecca taken captive
- Fall comes to the old frontier
- Preparations afoot for Fall Festival
- No Fall Rendezvous this year at Pricketts Fort
- Fall Festival & Antiques Fair to return to Pricketts Fort, October 10 & 11
- Season of mists …
- Aerial engagement over Pricketts Fort
- The building of a native pot
- Handsomest bucket on the Virginia frontier
- Dairy Day
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- Sharon Hanna on School of the Longhunter I: a leisurely preliminary saunter through the encampment
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