Fresh From the Farm Blog

For many of us Christmas is a magical time of year and the spirit of the season fills our hearts. Often, we experience and see this season reflected through the lens of Christmases past. Memories of a long-ago holiday may pop up and make us smile or may make us sad, and determined to do things differently in the future. Whatever the case may be, each Christmas is an opportunity to make new memories with those people who are important in our lives. I remember being little and standing at my grandparent’s door looking outside at colored Christmas lights reflecting...

Have you ever wondered how your Fredericksburg Farms order gets from us to you? Let me tell you, after you click “place order” on your computer or phone your order is given a number and shows up on our computer screen and then is downloaded in to our mail order management system. From here the order along with a “pick ticket” goes to our warehouse. Once the order is received by the warehouse crew, one of them pulls the items from inventory for your order and they are placed in a tub along with the pick ticket and invoice. The...

Is the tree up yet? I remember my kids asking almost daily after Thanksgiving when we were going to put up our family Christmas tree? It used to be a calculation of when to buy a live tree before they were all picked over at a tree lot, and how long the tree would last before it started turning brown and dropping needles everywhere. Artificial trees changed the tradition of shopping for a live tree or going out into the woods and cutting your own tree, bringing it home precariously tied to the top of the car. Now the “when”...

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving according to my calendar! At Fredericksburg Farms we celebrate Turkey Day each year with an all-company pot luck. We fry the turkeys and everyone brings something to share, it is a feast beyond compare and no one goes away hungry. We had the feast this past Monday and have been enjoying Thanksgiving leftovers all week. The downside is they are almost gone, the upside, we get to do it all again tomorrow as we take the day off to celebrate with family and friends. From all of us to all of you, “Happy Thanksgiving, Y’all!”

So what’s the deal with Black Friday and Cyber Monday? It used to be that shoppers would get up in the wee hours and line up outside stores who would schedule special sales on the Friday after Thanksgiving. The stores would open their doors maybe at 2 AM and would offer ridiculously low prices on a certain selection of items that were in limited supply, with the thought that the promotion would get lots of customers into the stores with money to spend, and when the limited deals ran out, they would spend their money on other regularly priced merchandise....