Welcome to week three of bake along! We love seeing all of the wonderful cakes and stack pies y’all have made. No Southern repertoire would be complete without a pound cake recipe. This recipe...
Welcome to Week Two of the Foxfire Bake Along! This fruit stack pie is a variation of an Appalachian classic. Get creative with your fruit flavors, and, if you’re feeling adventurous, make...
Are you keeping up with the latest season of The Great British Bake Off? To celebrate, and get prepared for the holiday season, we invite you to bake along with us, Appalachian style! Every Friday...
Hunting was an essential part of life in the mountains; most people did not raise enough livestock to keep them fed with meat year round. Unlike hunters today, who mostly go after deer, folks in the...
“Half-moon” pies, more commonly called hand pies, are a very popular Appalachian dessert. They are made by cooking down a fruit filling, often berries or apples, and encasing them in...
In the 1980s, Foxfire students conducted a project to document the many varieties of wine here in the mountains, and just how those wines were made. Join us as we hear from Jake Waldroop, John...
As students every where prepare for drastic changes to their schooling, we thought we’d take a look back at school in the early 1900s. This month, we feature interviews from Richard Norton,...
Our small corner of Northeast Georgia has surprisingly been the filming site of several movies, as far back as the 1950s. In this month’s episode, we feature oral histories from local folk who...
Foxfire’s mission is to preserve and develop the public’s appreciation for Southern Appalachian history – its history, people, and traditions – through artifacts, oral history, and programs that interpret, document and celebrate the region, and fosters self-directed, community-based classroom instruction following the Foxfire Core Practices.