Written by Susan McQuilkin On a grey rainy afternoon in January the sunny colors of Wegmans’ produce department at the recently opened Columbia store were a welcome relief. SMADC staff along with other industry representatives and producers from around Maryland had...
Written by Mindy Waite and Greg Bowen As many readers know, Congress recently passed a temporary Extension to the 2008 Farm Bill, which will be in effect until September of 2013. Many farmers (and legislators) are unhappy because Congress had been drafting a promising...
Those who have read Joel Salatin’s books, especially Everything I Want to Do is Illegal, are well aware that he has a strong aversion to government regulation of food production. However, in his most recent tome, Folks, This Ain’t Normal...
This year holds some real opportunities for Maryland farmers who are growing, or thinking of growing, locally-sourced food. A few workshops scheduled in January lay out the path to some of those opportunities. I mentioned in an earlier post, What is the growth...
This Christmas eve, NBC once again showed Frank Capra’s 1946 movie It’s a Wonderful Life. It blew away the competition with the largest audience in years. For the few who haven’t seen it, the movie setting is the 1920’s through the 1940’s and it is about a...
