All posts by Karin Andrews

I hope you have enjoyed your visit to my blog site. Although it is primarily a Real Estate Web Blog, I do also try to incorporate information, photography and articles on what sets this beautiful region of Virginia apart from all others. If you are interested in buying or selling real estate, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, I do service all of the major estate regions and make it my business to know the market in each area. My real estate brokerage is William E. Wood in Williamsburg, Virginia - quite simply we are "The best in the business". If you have visited Williamsburg and wish to purchase a home in Williamsburg, or an estate, equestrian, waterfront or country property in Tidewater, Virginia - please don't hesitate to give me a call or email me at karinandrewsrealestate@williamewood.com. Additionally, if you are selling, I have recent sales of historic estates and country properties that speak volumes about my committment to serve my clients regarding the advertising and sale of their property, from listing through closing. I'd be delighted to talk with you regarding your real estate needs. I am an expert in buying, selling, staging, photography, copywriting and so much more.

Here in our neck of the woods, we have a great deal of local talent and enterprising friends. Check out some of our native Essex County friends and their successful aquaculture enterprise that is taking the culinary world by storm!

Rappahannock River Oysters – Travis and Ryan Croxton

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Colonial Williamsburg is the World’s Largest Living History Museum –

April 5, 2014 Karin Andrews

History comes to life at Colonial Williamsburg, which is located in Tidewater, Virginia . Many of the best moments of my life and happiest memories have taken place here.

Attached is my article on the Rare Breeds Program at Colonial Williamsburg. Special thanks to Richard Nicoll and Penna Rogers.

The Rare Breeds of Colonial Williamsburg

www.History.org

Articles on the Chesapeake Bay Region of Virginia

The Daffodils of Gloucester – by Karin Andrews (contributing writer to the House and Home Magazine)

March 28, 2014 Karin Andrews

Daffodils have naturalized throughout Gloucester and Mathews County, Virginia.

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Oysters

Chesapeake Bay Oysters – House and Home Magazine

March 26, 2014 Karin Andrews

This is a published article I wrote years ago on Chesapeake Bay Oysters. Arrangements were made for me to go out on an oyster boat and see the entire aquaculture process from baby spat oysters to harvest. A rare glimpse. Chesapeake Bay Oysters

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Chesapeake Bay Oysters Making a Comeback!

March 26, 2014 Karin Andrews

Essex County’s own Travis and Ryan Croxton of RRO, bringing Oyster production back to the Chesapeake Bay!

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/26/dining/a-chesapeake-homecoming.html?ref=dining&_r=0

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Blandfield Plantation – Caret, Virginia

March 24, 2014 Karin Andrews

Blandfield Plantation is one of the great manor houses and estates still active in Essex County, Virginia. It is now the site of some of the greatest upland and waterfowl hunting excursions on the East Coast and also a Special Event / Wedding Venue. I am wrote this article for the House and Home Magazine on Blandfield and the work of the ECCA. A local group dedicated to historic preservation and also the preservation of farmland for future generations. Blandfield_article_for_house_and_home

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Ben Lomond – Circa 1730 Dunnsville, VA

March 24, 2014 Karin Andrews

Ben Lomond is the only historic home deemed architecturally important enough from all of Lower Essex County, Virginia to be photographed in 1933 along with Bathurst, which no longer exists and great houses from Upper Essex, which include Elmwood, Blandfield, Brookes Bank, Edenetta and Kinloch, which is no longer standing. Ben Lomond is currently offered for sale and presents a rare buying opportunity. It is truly one of the last remaining Great Houses with a great historic legacy.