Holiday Memories Farm – 2017 Mini-Grant Recipient

Holiday Memories Farm – 2017 Mini-Grant Recipient

Holiday Memories Farm is a family-owned and operated Christmas Tree farm located in Southern Anne Arundel County. In order to bring revenue into the farm sooner than the Christmas trees, they have expanded to offer flowers, fresh produce, eggs, chicks and now...

Selling local farm products through food hubs- new national report

This blog is the first in a two-part series on selling local farm products through outside distribution channels like food hubs. This week, MSU Center for Regional Food Systems, along with The Wallace Center, released the 2015 National Food Hub Survey findings, which...

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, farms of all sizes dotted Maryland’s countryside. Each winter, I read stories of successful homesteaders and pledge to produce most of my own food. However, I know...

Saving family farms in Maryland

Farming in the U.S. has gone through an incredible transformation in the last century, from highly diversified to highly specialized. Over that period, we’ve gone from 6.4 million farms to 2.1 million farms. Meanwhile, average farm size in the U.S. has increased...