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Appalachia

Foxfire Heritage Day Sneak Peek!

Foxfire Heritage Day Sneak Peek!

May 4, 2017

We are just about a week away from our Foxfire Heritage Day event and are busily running all over this mountain getting everything ready. Barry and Dave (aka Dexter, Handyman Extraordinaire) have...
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Planting by the signs

Planting by the signs

April 26, 2017

At the time when many of the crops planted in the spring were gathered in and preserved for the winter to come, our attention was turned to a phenomenon that had fascinated us for some time – that...
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Living Foxfire

Living Foxfire

April 14, 2017

Four months into my role as Foxfire’s executive director, I sit in this ever-increasingly-cluttered office, window open to one of the first true days of spring we’ve seen here on The Land....
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The Great Hook Test

The Great Hook Test

April 10, 2017

Every year the Foxfire class goes to the Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center to take the tour with Barry through the museum. It introduces new Foxfire students to the history behind what we do and...
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Experience the Foxfire Approach

Experience the Foxfire Approach

February 4, 2017

Teachers in middle grades and secondary education are invited to join facilitators from around the country and Canada to take part in a week-long workshop that covers The Foxfire Approach to...
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