antique tobacco press 1800's Wooden Rolling Primitive Cotton Gin / Leaf Roller, VA SOLD at Ruby Lane Oliver Evans broadside promoting his

The initial small group of 104 men and boys chose the location because it was favorable for defensive purposes, but it offered poor hunting prospects and a shortage of drinking water

It is quite natural to feel uncertain in the beginning

I like to plant basil as a companion plant all over my garden

And while the tomato hornworm is quite a pest in tomato gardens, the moth is a pretty cool creature also referred to as a sphinx moth or hummingbird moth

I added a small stabilizer piece under the sled to give me something to glue the seat boards onto

Thomas Jefferson once noted that "...great care is necessary as it [the tobacco] is very flammable, and it takes fire, the whole, with the house [tobacco barn], consumes as quickly as straw would." The trick to curing in a tobacco barn was to produce a tobacco leaf neither too dry nor too moist