Fresh From the Farm Blog

Arbor Day is April 26 this year.  Arbor Day sprouted from the mind of a zealous tree lover named Julius Sterling Morton, who had a passion for planting all kinds of trees. The first Arbor Day occurred on April 10, 1872, in Nebraska City, Nebraska. It’s estimated that nearly one million trees were planted on this day. Like Earth Day, Arbor Day celebrates nature and is usually celebrated on the last Friday of April in most states. Our Fredericksburg Farms Co-founder, Steve McAnally, loved to plant trees and often quoted a phrase,” “A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose...

Cultivating…we have talked about making New Year’s resolutions, starting flowers and veggies from seeds, and planting gardens in the last few months. If you have done those things like we have here at Fredericksburg Farms, you are now looking at cultivating those life changes you made in your resolutions, and watering and weeding your recently planted gardens. My grandmother (Mamaw) had a little hand pushed plow/cultivator that she faithfully ran up and down the rows of her garden to get rid of weeds and to keep the soil from getting hard packed in the Texas panhandle sun. I look at...

Zinnias are some of my favorite garden flowers to grow from seed. They are inexpensive, so buy several packets and sprinkle them in a flower bed. Before long the little zinnias will have popped up and in a few weeks, you can have lots of bright colored happy blooms to cut and decorate your table. At Fredericksburg Farms we plant both zinnias and sunflowers in our vegetable garden so we can harvest veggies and flowers at the same time. Zinnias are also a great choice for kids to plant because they grow quickly and last through our hot summers. Spread...

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...