When we went to Portugal in 1982, we were told not to drink the water and not to eat certain foods. However, we were enticed by cream-filled pastries and all of us lost a day in beautiful downtown Lagos hugging the porcelain. Health regulations are important. They...
When they read the title of Joel Salatin’s book, Everything I want to do is illegal, farmers often give a knowing smile. Stories like the legal battles over Prigel Family Creamery in Baltimore County raise concerns in the farming community that Maryland is not...
There is more than one way to look at what is fair! That is a conclusion that a farmer made at the Farm Link and Transition Pilot Workshop held in Virginia two weeks ago when reflecting on the way that his great-grandfather had divided his farm. His great-grandfather...
In a recent Farm Forum post on Maryland FarmLINK, I mentioned  a new book “The Locavore’s Dilemma: In Praise of the 10,000-Mile Diet” which dismissed the local food movement as an upper middle class food movement. Of course, the book’s title is...
In previous posts, we have shared information about the renewed interest in farming and reported that approximately 78% of new farmers did not grow up on a farm. We also mentioned the need for more new farmers, with the number of farmers retiring and increasing demand...
