Each month, Maryland FarmLINK membership increases by a couple of dozen new members, most who are looking for farmland. What are they seeking? To begin to understand that question, I reviewed the information submitted by new Maryland FarmLINK members for the last...
Two articles came through my twitter feed Tuesday describing widely disparate views about the role that equipment and technology should or will play in the future of agriculture. The first was titled Farms of the Future will run on Robots and Drones. The second was...
Maryland is America in miniature from its rugged mountains, to its fertile valleys and coastal plains, and to its sandy beaches. Add to that Maryland’s urban and rural population base, and you can expect that there are a large number of people who seek access to...
Once a trend gets established, it is hard to get people to heed to warning signs. In the early 1930s, farmers in portions of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas had noticed parched soils, dust and declining productivity caused by a low rainfall and...
On January 10th, I posted that the Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) had issued a press release initiating public review of the proposed rule for produce safety: Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption. The comment...
Each year, the American Planning Association holds its annual conference in a different city. Having heard of the work of several urban farming groups in Chicago and nearby Milwaukee, I perused the conference program in the hope that it would include sessions in local...
