Fresh From the Farm Blog

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...

In the early morning on this date (March 6) in 1836 a rag tag group of defenders gave their lives in pursuit of Texas independence from Mexico. The small garrison of volunteers and soldiers numbering less than 200 was surrounded by outnumbering forces of Mexican General Santa Anna’s army of regulars. The defenders were confined in the old abandoned Mission San Antonio de Valero near the town of San Antonio de Bexar. As dawn broke the strains of the Deguello were heard from the Mexican camp, signaling that no quarter would be given the defenders. The attack began and all...

What will the weather bring this year? When will it rain? When is the next full moon? When do I plant my crops or my garden according to the phases of the moon? For hundreds of years people have been consulting a farmer’s almanac to get answers to these important questions. Each year I always buy a new Farmer’s Almanac to check and see if I think there is a snowflakes chance of anything it says actually happening. More often than not, there will be some things that will happen just as predicted. And planting by the moon has been...

Have you ever wondered how we make bar soaps? It involves following a recipe just like in cooking a favorite dinner. Our bar soaps are made following a hot-cold process. Some of the ingredients we combine are goat milk, coconut oil, palm kernel oil, water, olive oil, shea butter, clay, avocado oil, fragrance oils and color. Then the magic begins as the warmed oils are carefully mixed with the other ingredients in a specific order. The soap batch is poured into lined molds and the color is artistically swirled into the molds of scented soap creating a work of art....