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Medicine, Mules, & Moonshine Stills

Medicine, Mules, & Moonshine Stills

June 9, 2017

What a week! What a rewarding, enriching, and fun-filled week! Foxfire has been alive with so much activity, I can hardly focus my memory to catch it all. This marked the first week of Summer...
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Notes from The Land

Notes from The Land

May 26, 2017

In her note at the front of The Foxfire Book of Simple Living, our past executive director Ann Moore writes from the porch of the Moore House in the midst of Living History Days (now Foxfire...
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Foxfire Today Released!

Foxfire Today Released!

May 8, 2017

Last year, Joy Phillips, a Foxfire alumnus and language arts teacher at Rabun County Elementary School, and M’ryanne Peacock, a math and science teacher also at RCES, worked with gifted and...
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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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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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