Fresh From the Farm Blog

Are you going to be able to view the upcoming total solar eclipse? In Fredericksburg we are lucky to be in the path of totality and everyone is eagerly anticipating the view, which for many will be a once in a lifetime experience. It had been my plan to have this blog all about the April 8 eclipse and how people have viewed eclipses down through time. Something happened on March 26 that changed my plan, my husband of 43 plus years and the CEO of our family company, Fredericksburg Farms, was taken from us in a tragic accident. The...

Fredericksburg Farms suffered a catastrophic loss last week with the passing of Steven McAnally—our Founder, President, Owner, Husband, Father, and Friend. Here are some words shared by his loving wife, Randye. “Today is the first day I have spent without my husband of 43 plus years by my side. He left this earth for his Heavenly home yesterday after being in an accident on our ranch. For him to be gone so suddenly and unexpectedly is hard to get my mind to accept. I can take comfort in knowing he is seeing Jesus face to face today and I hope he...

What is your tradition for celebrating this holiday? In our family we celebrated Easter by going to church dressed in our new outfits bought just for the occasion. I remember frilly dresses and gloves and hats when I was a child and always new patent leather shoes. Boys got decked out in the always correct navy blue blazer with gold buttons, the style never changed and those jackets got handed down to younger brothers and cousins. After church we would go on a picnic taking fried chicken, potato salad, deviled eggs and angel food cake to be eaten with strawberries....

Our whole manufacturing team at Fredericksburg Farms has been working very hard to make soaps, pour candles, make air fresheners, formulate lotions and hand creams along with increasing inventories of our food products all to be ready for the spring and summer seasons. Whether you shop at a local gift store near your home or find our products at a gas and convenience store while traveling we hope you like what we carefully handcraft for you, our customers. We thank you for following us as we have expanded our product line through the years and expanded our markets that carry...

St. Patrick’s Day (March 17)…originally an Irish religious holiday and celebration, was brought to the U. S. by Irish immigrants. Although revered as Irelands’ patron saint, St. Patrick was not Irish; he was born of Roman citizen parents in 385 A.D. in either Scotland or Wales. St. Patrick was captured by pirates as a boy and sold into slavery in Ireland where he tended sheep before escaping to a monastery in England. There he became a Christian and years later returned to Ireland as a missionary bringing Christianity to the Irish. It is said that he used the shamrock with...