Walking-the-walk for Buy Local Challenge Week!
When Buy Local Challenge Week began 7 years ago, it was a challenge to find enough locally...
Working to expand opportunities for Maryland farmers
In the past six months, the Maryland Sustainable Growth Commission's Rural Economies Workgroup has...
Eroding trust in food safety is fueling the local food movement
A 2015 survey of American consumers, commissioned by the International Food Information Council...
Do farms have to be profitable?
To many, farming is a rejection of urban lifestyles, of being chained to a desk. Farming is a...
Romanticists and realists should see value in farm diversity!
I cry at (good) movies and I think wistfully about the good ole days when quaint, picturesque,...
Food security and food safety with locally sourced food
USDA defines food security for a household as "access by all members at all times to enough food...
Finding a place to grow — on leased land in Maryland
The Piedmont Environmental Council recently released a publication entitled Finding a Place to...
Can Maryland be food self-sufficient?
As recently as 70 years ago, Maryland was virtually food self-sufficient, with local farmers...
All are fed at the farm
Written by Priscilla Wentworth and Greg Bowen Serenity Farm in Charles County should no longer...