NewsEverybody’s Gotta Eat
Parents spend a lot of time refereeing. No, you can’t have hot fries and ice cream for dinner. Yes, please, have some more kale. We go to the dinner tables of “natural parents,” who left city life behind to bring kids closer to their food source.
NewsA message from Jon Lohman:
After nearly two incredible decades, I have chosen to move on from my position of Director of the Virginia Folklife Program. It has been an amazing journey, and I simply …
NewsAll Together Now: Richmond Folk Festival 2020
Watch new and past favorite performances from the Virginia Folklife Stage This two-part television program from VPM features new performances from some of Virginia’s most talented artists, along with several …
EventAll Together Now: Richmond Folk Festival 2020
VPM to broadcast new and past favorite performances from the Virginia Folklife Stage on TV This two-part television program, created specifically for the 2020 festival, features new performances from some …
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EventFood, Politics, & Colonial Women with Dr. Nancy Siegel
A Taste of Democracy: Federal Cake, Liberty Tea, and Culinary Activism in the Early Republic. Moderated by Stratford Hall’s Director of Programming, Education, and Visitor Engagement Dr. Kelley Fanto Deetz, …
EventAfrican American Foodways Cooking Demonstration
Stratford Hall’s 1738 kitchen will become center stage with historical interpreter and chef, Dontavius Williams. Cooking traditional African American dishes, Williams will share stories of plantation kitchen labor and the …
EventAfrican American Foodways Cooking Demonstration
Stratford Hall’s 1738 kitchen will become center stage with historical interpreter and chef, Dontavius Williams. Cooking traditional African American dishes, Williams will share stories of plantation kitchen labor and the …
EventColonial Milling & Brewing
Join us and Stratford Hall for a virtual tour and lecture about Stratford Hall’s Historic Gristmill with traditional miller, Steve Bashore and 18th-century baker, Justin Cherry. They will be discussing 18th …
NewsFrom Farm-Based Learning to the Virtual Landscape
Arcadia Food Inc. is using a CARES Act grant to provide good food, good health, and warm human connections to under resourced communities in northern Virginia.
NewsCooking Remotely
By Nora Pehrson “I was hesitant, at first, about enrolling in an online cooking class,” admits Morgan Miller. “It’s a new format, and I’m not a super tech-savvy person. But …
NewsBack to the Land
Gardening provides the fresh air, exercise, food, and distraction that many people need right now. And “immunity gardens” are emerging to add more to that list.
NewsThe Saving Grace of Spring Rolls
By Nora Pehrson Growing up in the 1970s in College Park, Maryland with a Vietnamese-born mother and an American-born father, Virginia Humanities Fellow Kim O’Connell’s experience of identity has always …
