For those of you who are able to social distance, it might have been a couple of weeks since you last made a grocery run, and you might...

Before Gatorade, Powerade, and Vitamin Water, Switchel was the drink of choice for rehydration. by Kate McGowan, Museum Interpreter “I...

photo credit: Hilary Schwab Food. When I begin to think about the holidays, it is impossible to do so without thinking about food and all...

In January, a young man named Ian (the son of one of our bluebird monitors) contacted us to see if he could do his Eagle Scout Service...

In the wake of the bombing this month at the Boston Marathon, my facebook newsfeed was inundated with posts and statuses lamenting the...

I am five months and two days (is it really already March?!) into my service year with the Accokeek Foundation, Volunteer Maryland, and...

This volunteer position is to assist with the interpretation of the National Colonial Farm through the belly (and the kitchen), as we...

Some Saturdays (the third to be precise), one may enjoy a presentation of the traditional Maryland dishes, or Foodways, dating from the...

by Matt Mattingly During the winter of 2010, the National Colonial Farm began to reexamine what is known in the living history world as...

It was a fairly warm Saturday on the National Colonial Farm but under the shade of a poplar tree the Accokeek Foundation held its monthly...

by Matt Mattingly, Manager of the National Colonial Farm and Historic Interpretation You know what I miss the most about Southern...

The Accokeek Foundation's Foodways program explores the foods that our colonial ancestors ate and the ways in which these foods were...

In March of this year the National Colonial Farm will premier its newly developed Foodways program.  Over the years this successful...