Vacationing here near Lake Michigan, it is easy to eat local. Grocery stores sell milk from local farms (grass fed and antibiotic free). Bread is locally sourced, some of it from organic grain farms. There are lots of greens in the local stores and farmers markets....
Since the botched Hudson case, good things have been happening with ag law in Maryland. Over the decades, farmers across the nation have seen a steady increase in regulatory requirements pertaining to environmental protection, food safety, labor and so on. However,...
It had been 8 years since the last national land preservation conference. I was happy to attend the most recent one in Hershey, PA last week, entitled Saving America’s Farms and Farmland: celebrating 40 Years of Farmland Preservation. It was a chance to...
With all the methods of communication available to use today, one would think that we are well-connected. Not so! I suspect that our rural country stores a century ago provided a better opportunity for meeting and communicating with a broader range of community...
On May 2nd, the USDA will finally release the full 2012 Census of Agriculture. Such news still matters in Maryland. Despite being the fifth most densely populated state in the union, Maryland still has over two million acres of farmland and agriculture generates an...
The tenant house may become a key to the future of agriculture in Maryland. Here are the reasons for my surprising conclusion. First, Maryland’s land preservation programs were first developed at a time when farmers needed more land and fewer workers. Successful...
