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Foto Friday: Mozzarella Braid
Have you ever seen such a beautiful braid of cheese before? So beautiful you almost don’t want to eat it. Almost. Last weekend, a dozen...
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Accokeek Foundation
- Jul 19, 2012
- 1 min
The National Colonial Farm Museum Theater Program Presents “That’s Entertainment: The Po
For Immediate Release: July 19, 2012 2012 Museum Theater interns (from left to right); Jeremy Hunter, Kelsey Jonas, Alyshia Bradley, and...
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Accokeek Foundation
- Jul 18, 2012
- 2 min
Place a Wager and Support Museum Theatre at the National Colonial Farm!
This year’s theme for the big summer colonial event, That’s Entertainment: The Politics of Mirth, is a colonial-era barbeque designed to...
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Accokeek Foundation
- Jun 27, 2012
- 2 min
DAR Awards $6000 Grant to the Accokeek Foundation
HARMONY HALL CHAPTER National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Press Release June 7, 2012 Contact: Judy Meade (301)...
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Accokeek Foundation
- Jun 19, 2012
- 2 min
Trail Treks: The Secret Life of Soil
As stewards of more than three miles of hiking trails in Piscataway Park, the Accokeek Foundation had much to celebrate on National...
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Accokeek Foundation
- Jun 11, 2012
- 2 min
Memoirs of a Dairy Princess Celebrating National Dairy Month
by Polly Festa, Livestock Manager Have you herd heard? June is National Dairy Month, and as a former Herkimer County First Alternate...
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Accokeek Foundation
- Jun 1, 2012
- 1 min
Economy of Motion (or, another apprentice lesson learned)
by Susan Cook, Ecosystem Farm Apprentice (from this week’s edition of Field Notes.) photo credit: Anjela Barnes I have been learning...
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Accokeek Foundation
- May 25, 2012
- 2 min
Dirty Fingernails (reflections of a farm apprentice)
by Susan Cook, Ecosystem Farm Apprentice (an excerpt from Field Notes, week 3) It’s a little after noon and it’s time to eat lunch. I...
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Accokeek Foundation
- May 18, 2012
- 2 min
The Satisfactions of Farming
by Becky Seward, Ecosystem Farm Manager (Written to the CSA community and published in this week’s edition of Field Notes.) I write to...
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Accokeek Foundation
- May 16, 2012
- 2 min
Appreciating the Ordinary: Deer and Geese in Piscataway Park
This pair of Canada geese and their goslings were spotted in the pond that leads up to the Pawpaw Trail. The bright rump of a...
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Accokeek Foundation
- May 14, 2012
- 1 min
“For My Mom”
by Sky Harman, Farm Apprentice My parents were homesteaders and founded communal farms in the ’60s and ’70s, at a time when the world...
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Accokeek Foundation
- Apr 20, 2012
- 2 min
Trail Treks: Birds and Blooms in Piscataway Park
The jack-in-the-pulpit, left, is just one of the spring ephemera that blooms in Piscataway Park. Right, a redbud and pawpaw tree are in...
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Accokeek Foundation
- Apr 16, 2012
- 1 min
Children’s Day Event Teaches Southern Maryland History and Culture Through an Interactive Outd
For Immediate Release For more than 50 years, the Accokeek Foundation at Piscataway Park has been providing just this kind of...
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Accokeek Foundation
- Apr 13, 2012
- 2 min
Cows Are My Passion
To quote Charles Dickens, “Cows are my passion.” I have been passionate about cows ever since I was a toddler, when my parents would...
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Accokeek Foundation
- Mar 13, 2012
- 3 min
Ordinary Life on the Potomac
by Colleen Walter, Site Interpreter The National Colonial Farm at Piscataway Park depicts life of an ordinary tobacco farming family...
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Accokeek Foundation
- Mar 12, 2012
- 2 min
Trail Treks: Unearthing History in Piscataway Park
Seemingly ancient barbed wire wrapped around an old wooden fencepost serves as a reminder of just one way that humans have interacted...
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Accokeek Foundation
- Mar 5, 2012
- 3 min
Accokeek Foundation President Named 2012-2013 Noyce Leadership Fellow
For Immediate Release: March 5, 2012 Science Center and Museum Executives Chosen for Intensive Leadership Program WASHINGTON, D.C.—The...
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Accokeek Foundation
- Feb 17, 2012
- 3 min
Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow: An Inspirational Farewell from Your Farmers
Guest post by your 2011 Ecosystem Farm Farmers, Courtney and Colette Buchholtz “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and...
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Accokeek Foundation
- Feb 17, 2012
- 2 min
Trail Treks: Taking In Our View of Mount Vernon
The Pawpaw Trail offers wintertime views of Mount Vernon and the Potomac River. Whether it’s from the Saylor Grove fishing pier or the...
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Accokeek Foundation
- Feb 4, 2012
- 1 min
The Story of Three Little Pigs
by Polly Festa Last week I trekked all the way to West Virginia. “Why?” You may ask. Well, our good ol’ friend, the Red Baron (aka: the...
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