Over the last few years, we have not been used to compromise in Congress. However, the new Farm Bill represents a good show of bipartisanship and it holds new opportunities for farmers in Maryland. Most farm groups across the country appear to support the Bill. In an...
Recently, you may have seen a number of posts from me about food hubs and the growth potential for local farm-to-table farmers. I guess that others have the same thought in mind. At the Future Harvest CASA conference last week, there was standing-room only for a...
Earlier this week, I met an older farm neighbor in a local restaurant. We chatted about the winter weather (of course) and then he said, “You know down on the cove, we used to go skating nearly every year. Now it only freezes enough to walk on it once a decade...
Despite the fact that it has the fifth highest population density, Maryland is known nationally for its local and state land preservation programs. For its size, it has preserved the most land of any state. However, the rate of land preservation has slowed due to the...
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...
I must confess that when I first heard about ‘slow money’, I was not impressed and only mildly curious. It does not sound particularly appealing or make fiscal sense. If ‘slow money’ is an investment philosophy, why would anyone chose it? I discovered that the answer...
