Mast General Store Blog

The holidays can be the most stressful time of the year. All of us create imagined expectations that are often unrealistic, that we push ourselves to achieve, when what we...

A good cleanup in the fall is well worth your while for a healthy, vital garden next spring. Get started by pulling up vegetable plants, pull up and put away...

Apple picking season is one of the sweetest times of year, and we’re fortunate to live in an area that offers quite a few “pick your own” fruit farms and...

With a national trend toward “back-to-the-land” homesteading, many Americans are growing their own food in their backyards. But what to do with this ample harvest when more food is grown...

Would you think it's possible to make a good fried sweet potato pie at home that is not loaded with saturated fat?

There’s a group of local gentlemen, some retired farmers, who have gathered at the potbellied stove of the Original Store every day for the thirty-plus years since the Cooper family...