Foxfire EZine: The Covid Series
As our Foxfire fellows gear up for a unique summer of socially distanced oral histories, we’ve encouraged them to reach out to people in their lives to start their investigation of how the...
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Education
Woodstove Cooking Class: Sourdough Banana Bread
If quarantine converted you into a home baker, chances are you’ve been raising a sourdough starter. Feeding and discard schedules can get cumbersome, and sometimes finding ways to use the...
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Make Your Own Clay Using 3 Household Ingredients
Making your own clay is a very simple process. In this post, we are going to use 3 household ingredients: Water, Baking Soda, and Cornstarch, to make an easy clay recipe that you can use to form...
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Woodstove Cooking Class: Quick Homemade Cheese
We are making homemade ricotta cheese today, based on a recipe from The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery. This simple stove-top recipe requires only three ingredients: milk, vinegar, and salt....
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Trash Tutorial: Fire Starter
We’ve got another trash tutorial for you! Toilet paper seems to be a hot topic these days, but what do you do with the roll when you finish? If you find yourself throwing away these little...
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Woodstove Cooking Class: Cast Iron & Corn Bread
At long last, we are making the Appalachian staple: cornbread. This recipe is just one of many from The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery. Every cook had their own way of making cornbread, often...
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Trash Tutorial: Coffee Hand Scrub
With the current pandemic, many of us are reducing the number of trips we take to the store, and trying to stretch our resources as best we can. But what about food waste? Did you know that many of...
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Log Hewing
Curator Barry Stiles takes us through the process of hand-hewing a log. All log cabins in this region of the mountains were made of hewn logs. This was a process for squaring-off logs to make...
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