Gardening
Make your garden a grand attraction
World renowned gardener Cole Burrell is coming to the Little Washington Theatre on Sunday, March 18, at 2 p.m. […]
Gardening
Gardening
Muggy weather doesn’t dampen garden tour
At 3 p.m. Saturday the temperature in the town of Washington reached 93 degrees, with a heat index of 103. But that didn’t stop well over 700 visitors from flocking to the county seat for Historic Garden Week in Virginia. […]
Gardening
Town of Washington rolls out the welcome mat for Saturday’s garden tour
Historic Garden Week tours are the perfect way to enjoy Virginia’s unique regions. The Town of Washington garden and home tour is finally upon us — this Saturday — offering a glimpse inside four grand homes with gardens. […]
Gardening
Historic Garden Week showcases Rappahannock homes
Historic Garden Week in Virginia — dubbed “America’s Largest Open House” — will bring literally hundreds of visitors to the county seat, many seeing the historic town and the county’s attractions for the first time. […]
Adult Education
Homesteading conference coming to Fauquier
The October Homesteaders of America conference will feature demonstrations on blacksmithing, quilting, canning and preserving, wild game trapping, off grid living, solar power, gardening, holistic health, dairy animals, soaps and salves, ethical meat, bushcrafting, and much more. […]
Fundraising
Garden Club’s holiday labor of love is only natural
Greens for you: Since 1952, the Rappahannock County Garden Club’s annual sale of holiday greenery has been raising funds for county students to attend nature camp and to help high school seniors with college tuition and other costs. […]
Art
Washington column for Oct. 20
Winter is coming and the Knights of Columbus want your coats; Anna Weatherley, internationally acclaimed porcelain artist, will make a guest appearance at The Inn’s Tavern Shops; bring your greens and make a wreath with the Garden Club. […]
Food and Drink
A jarring experience ends well
Canning lessons prove, unexpectedly, to be the best gift. Rose Jacob came away with jars and jars of peaches and apples, and a special friendship. And she’s been “putting up” with her husband ever since. […]
Food and Drink
The Tomato Master’s Love
From Charlene James of Amissville this week, the first of what we hope to become a regular poetry feature . . . […]
Gardening
Clark Hollow Ramblings: News from the garden
Sometimes it seems like you wait and wait on the garden, and then, all at once, it is giving you more than you can keep up with. That’s the way ours is, anyway. Honestly, I have been […]
Clark Hollow Ramblings
Clark Hollow Ramblings: Memorial Day and fresh dirt
I hope you made it through the Memorial Day weekend without any unfavorable incidents, or at least no incidents that will leave a scar. […]
Clark Hollow Ramblings
Clark Hollow Ramblings: The wet spring vegetable garden
Some notes, and news you can use, from Richard Brady’s vegetable garden. […]
Clark Hollow Ramblings
Clark Hollow Ramblings: Wet enough for you?
It seems we are mowing every other day, if it is dry enough. And, if we don’t, the grass gets so thick that it comes out of the mower in big, wet hunks. […]
Gardening
Poppy Talk: Ground maneuvers
With too much soil, a battalion of garlic (and the help of a miniature army), first-time gardener Charlotte Salley begins planting. Her four raised beds are still just boxes of dirt, but now the soil covers some significant hope. […]
Clark Hollow Ramblings
Still wandering aimlessly
It is hard to believe, but it has been over 10 years since I wrote an article for this paper called, “Wandering Aimlessly In The Woods.” Needless to say, for good or for bad, I am still suffering from this particular malady. […]
Gardening
Thanks for the SeedMoney, and what grows from it
We are thrilled here at the Child Care and Learning Center to share that the SeedMoney Grant, which Nicole Loch set up for us, has raised $425 at seedmoney.org! […]
Features & Columns
The Rapp for April 28
Personal property forms due • ‘Give Local Piedmont’ is May 3 • Smithsonian at Little Washington • Civil War film showing
• Rappahannock plant sale […]
Antiques
Unpaved Roadshow: The dirt on early garden tools
In the largely agrarian society of colonial America, what we think of as common garden tools were extremely valuable in planting and cultivating the beds and fields that fed whole families. […]
Features & Columns
Poppy Talk: From city streets to a country garden
Charlotte Salley, 24, is tending her very first vegetable garden and fully expects to harvest cornucopias of the county’s best produce in the coming months. This is the first of an occasional column tracking the progress of this first-time gardener and her soon-to-be garden. […]
Gardening
Letter: Great greens gratitude
Every year since 1954, members of the Rappahannock Garden Club have expressed their thanks to the whole community for their successful sale of wreaths, garland, centerpieces, swags and other assorted Christmas greenery that, while beautifying […]