An example of experiential education, the magazine had articles based on the students' interviews with local people about aspects and practices in Appalachian culture.

Its articles were the product of the students' interviewing their relatives and local citizens about how lifestyles had changed over the course of their lives and dealt with traditions in the rural area.

Day-to-day operations of the organizations programs and projects is managed by an executive director, who reports to the board, and additional full-time staff.

The students used some of their revenues to set up the Foxfire Fund, a not-for-profit educational and literary organization in Rabun County, Georgia.

Rabun County students, who saw their project revenues increasing as a result of the Foxfire books' best-seller status, also decided to create a museum.

Students helped move and reconstruct some 30 log structures, including single-family cabins, a grist mill, barn, smokehouse, springhouse, other outbuildings and more, to preserve aspects of the traditional Appalachian way of life.

[5] Wigginton originally thought of the student-produced magazine as a way to help his high school freshmen see the relevance of good English skills.

the Foxfire approach), which features 11 core principles, related to the philosopher John Dewey's concepts of experiential education.

Foxfire continues to train educators in its constructivist methods, which begins with the assertion that students must construct meaning for themselves, rather than memorizing information a teacher deems important.

Foxfire and other constructivist approaches to teaching propose that by constructing their own meaning, establishing relationships, and seeing the connection of what they do in the classroom to "the real world," students are better able to learn.

As a result of changing ideas in education, Rabun County High School moved the Foxfire magazine/book class from English to the business curriculum and pulled students away from operations of the museum as they once were.

[7] The books cover a wide range of topics, many to do with crafts, tools, music and other aspects of traditional life skills and culture in Appalachia.