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December 30, 2009 “I enjoy being home and doing things with Frank on the farm. I enjoy the animals, and I feel blessed to be feeding somebody almost all the time. It doesn’t matter to me if you’re four-legged or two-legged; if you show up at my place I’ll be happy to give you something to eat,” she says.
December 2, 2009 Pretty paper, pretty ribbons. Sweet treats and sweeter memories of times shared with friends and family.

November 1, 2009 “Since I retired from teaching, my goal is to educate people about peanuts and farm life,” says Gloria Jeffcoat of Houston County.

September 2, 2009 Mary Tucker and her daughter, Karan, may love life in Fayette County, but are just as likely to be on the road as on the porch.
July 29, 2009 Judy Spree of Greene County says she’s excited about any opportunity she gets to promote Alabama’s farm-raised catfish.
June 26, 2009 Renee Hall of Henry County doesn’t spend a lot of time in the kitchen, but when she or her husband Joe are planning to cook, chances are pork will be on the menu.

May 22, 2009 From her young days in her mother’s kitchen to the lunches she now prepares for her sons and grandson who work on the farm, Ella Faire has spent much of her farm life in the kitchen
April 29, 2009 Donna Anders of Tuscaloosa County keeps a “new-recipes-to-try” file in her kitchen, letting her family decide which is a keeper.
March 16, 2009 When the holidays are over, some people may find themselves missing the special times with family that the season brings. But, for Carol Knight of Randolph County, a family meal is never far away.
March 16, 2009 As soft as clouds and as golden as sunshine, Wilene Sherer’s homemade bread is a fairytale in food. And the lesson it teaches is that some things just aren’t for sale.

March 16, 2009 Marcia Plaster may not have been born on an Alabama farm, but she certainly has the heart of one who’s never strayed far from the fields.

January 7, 2009 Dawn East says she’s been very fortunate to have two loving families shape her life.
November 20, 2008 Patsy Fincher of Mobile County says she can’t imagine how she and her husband John had time for anything before they retired.
October 1, 2008 As a working mother of two, Butler County native Charlene Powell says her family still finds time for a sit-down dinner most nights.
September 5, 2008 Minutes after hearing cookbook author Leslie Bailey declare that “there are no new recipes,” Edwina Dykes of Barbour County proved her right by using a borrowed recipe that she personalized into a hearty soup to take first place in the Heritage Cooking Contest in Montgomery on Thursday, Sept. 4.
August 4, 2008 When Kelly Kyser graduated high school, she said the last thing she wanted to do was live in Greensboro and marry a catfish farmer. But after graduating college and starting her career, that’s exactly what she did.

July 9, 2008 It’s hard to tell if Amy Belcher of Montgomery County is more proud of her family’s farming heritage or her family’s tradition of making wonderful food.

July 9, 2008 Ella Caraway summarizes her move from a small town in Pennsylvania to her husband’s
family farm in Barbour County in two words: very different.

April 30, 2008 Originally from Elmore County, Donna says she always cooked with her mother but also learned about cooking through her involvement in 4-H.
March 27, 2008 Sherri Plant of Madison County says that some of her fondest childhood memories are of long days spent on her uncle’s dairy farm in Arkansas.