Food prepared, styled and photographed by Brooke Echols Judging our annual Christmas cookie contest is a special occasion for us at Alabama Living!  This year, we broadened the contest to include Christmas treats as well. You’ll see that two of our winners are definitely some...
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Home cooks bake on the theme, “Celebrating your ancestral roots” In 2023, Alabama Living’s sponsored cooking competition at the Alabama National Fair was themed, “Celebrating your ancestral roots.” This year, to make it a bit different, we asked our home bakers to use the same...
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By Katie Jackson Back in the early 1990s, a small group of snowbirds on their way south for the winter made a rest stop at Decatur’s Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge and ended up staying for the entire season. Word of this new-found overwintering wonderland apparently...
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Spotlight December 2024

Get in the holiday spirit with Governor’s Mansion candlelight tours The state Governor’s Mansion comes alive in the spirit of Christmas with the annual candlelight

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The perils of ‘Dirty Santa’

I went to a Christmas party the other day with 50 little old ladies between the age of about 70 and 100. We had some great

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Daniel Moore, Painter of Legends

By Lenore Vickrey The final seconds were ticking down in the 2023 Iron Bowl, and Auburn fans could smell a victory inside Jordan-Hare Stadium. Their

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Winning Christmas Cookies and Treats

Food prepared, styled and photographed by Brooke Echols Judging our annual Christmas cookie contest is a special occasion for us at Alabama Living!  This year,

Worth the Drive

Electric Cooperatives

Since 1936 electric co-ops have built 2.5 million miles of power lines across rural America – long enough to reach from the earth to the moon five and a half times.

From booming suburbs to remote rural farming communities, Alabama’s electric cooperatives are energy providers and engines of economic development. Statewide, electric cooperatives serve more than 1 million Alabamians in their homes, businesses, farms and schools. Their coverage spans approximately 70% of Alabama’s landmass.

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Alabama Rural Electric Association (AREA)

National Rural Electric Cooperative Assocition (NRECA)

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Sweet Creek Farm Market

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Sweet Creek Farm Market
85 Meriwether Rd
Pike Road, Alabama 36064

(334) 280-3276

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