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To Be a Thirsty Tomato

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Sheilah Kast, Stephanie Hughes - Aug. 02 (News Analysis) - How the extreme heat and dryness is affecting the region's farmers.

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Greening aims to revive Reservoir Hill

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Timothy B. Wheeler - Jul. 13 (News) - When Gerrie Okwesa moved to Reservoir Hill five years ago, she had no intention of staying long. Vacant rowhouses marred the block, and a fence obstructed one end of the street where she lived — put there by police, she was told, to disrupt the drug trafficking that plagued the neighborhood. But the place grew on the teacher from Washington, and she's put down roots, literally. With help from nonprofit groups and the city, she and her neighbors have greened up the 700 block of Newington Ave., replacing dead and dying trees, planting flowers around them and even turning a trash-strewn vacant lot into a lush neighborhood garden brimming with crape myrtles, hibiscus, hydrangeas and daylilies. "I really love opening my door and seeing trees and flowers and green stuff," she said.

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More Chickens Calling Baltimore Home

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WBAL-TV - By Lisa Robinson - Jul. 13 (News) - That indeed was a chicken crossing the road -- or your neighbor's back yard.

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Farmers' Market: Produce and Smiling Faces

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Dundalk Patch - By Jordan Hadfield - Jul. 10 (News) - With the first day of the Dundalk Farmers' Market every year comes a sea of regulars – customers and vendors. Every vendor selling at the market this year is a returning, tried and true, Dundalk Farmer’s Market loyalist.

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Chesapeake Bay rules under consideration rile farmers, local officials

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Timothy B. Wheeler - Jul. 04 (News) - State officials looking to clean up the Chesapeake Bay are weighing a series of new restrictions on how and when farmers can fertilize their fields — and on when municipal sewage treatment plants can spread their sludge on farmland.

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Aquaculture in Maryland

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Nathan Sterner, Katherine Gorman - Jun. 27 (News) - A look behind the delays in introducing aquaculture to the Chesapeake.

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Rough time for Eastern Shore's poultry industry

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Jamie Smith Hopkins - Jun. 25 (News) - On Maryland's Eastern Shore, everything leads back to chickens. The poultry industry is the largest piece of a key sector of the local economy — agriculture — and its reach is broad: from the truckers who move products and the many farmers who grow corn for chicken feed to the corner stores and other businesses that rely on customers' income.

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Maryland’s wines starting to see their time

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Capital - By Allison Bourg - Jun. 05 (News) - Industry watchers say local wineries are popping up almost as fast as farmers can grow grapes. According to the 2010 Maryland Vineyard Survey, recently released by the Maryland Grape Growers Association, there’s been a 200 percent increase in the number of acres dedicated to planting grapes in the last decade.

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Growing Concern Over Stink Bugs

Fri, 20 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WBAL Radio - By John Patti, Associated Press - May. 20 (News) - The brown marmorated stink bug is causing millions of dollars in damages to crops in the mid-Atlantic region. And it may be just getting started.

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York Road Giant Assembling Famed Preakness Blanket

Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Towson Patch - By Tyler Waldman - May. 19 (News) - More than 4,000 flowers will be used in the blanket that will grace the winner's back at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday.

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Mt. Airy U-Pick Farm remains a good pick

Sat, 14 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Capital - By Theresa Winslow - May. 14 (News) - The phone's always ringing at the Hopkins home in Davidsonville, sometimes at 3 or 4 in the morning. The calls start around March and continue unabated for weeks. Annoying, but understandable given the popularity of the family's strawberries.

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Environmental efforts focus on poultry litter

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Maryland Reporter - By Barbara Pash - Apr. 26 (News) - The poultry industry helps drive the economy of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, but poultry litter -- chicken manure -- has been blamed as one of the greatest contributors to pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. Large producers, farmers, and state initiatives alike are working together to lessen the industry’s environmental impact while preserving the businesses.

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City grown: Subculture of urban farmers takes hold in Baltimore

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

b free daily - By Anthony Fair - Apr. 22 (News) - In the middle of northeast Baltimore — amid the brick rowhomes, the concrete sidewalks and the steady stream of automobiles — is a patch of land that to an outsider looks completely out of place. Rows of crops sprouting out of the ground? Chickens laying eggs? Bees making honey? Believe it.

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New farms to take root in Baltimore

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Julie Scharper - Apr. 20 (News) - On a bright spring afternoon, Denzel Mitchell tugs clumps of purple-flowered chickweed from tidy rows of spinach. An earthworm wriggles through clumps of dark, crumbling soil under his fingers.

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Neighborhood Life: The Ups, Downs, and Day-to-Days on East Monument Street

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Bmore Media - By Sam Hopkins - Apr. 19 (News) - When Bill Richardson thinks about how long he's run his produce stand at East Baltimore's Northeast Market, he says simply, "Too long." It's the kind of wry comment one expects from a grandparent or a neighborhood veteran. And Richardson is certainly the latter when you consider the five generations his family has spent doing business on East Monument Street. "I started coming here with my mother and grandfather when I was 6 years old," he says. "That was 68 years ago."

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New thinking needed for Chesapeake Bay crab fishery

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Larry Simns - Apr. 07 (Opinion) - Over the past decade, Maryland's commercial watermen, our families and communities have slowly but steadily been reaching a turning point in our lives. With a polluted Chesapeake Bay, uncertain seafood stocks, rising costs of doing business and unpredictable fisheries management, commercial watermen around the state are facing a critical choice about the future.

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Crowds throng to season's first farmers' market

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Richard Gorelick - Apr. 03 (News) - There were no strawberries or asparagus — yet — but there were cases of kale at the Baltimore Farmers' Market & Bazaar on Sunday, and crates and crates of collard greens. And plenty of people.

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Baltimore Farmers' Market - Opening Day

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore 21201 - By Stephen Brockelman - Apr. 03 (Opinion) - Today was the first day of the 2011 Farmers' Market Season in Baltimore. Jacob headed down Saratoga Street early this morning to check out the offerings.

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By Their Compost Heaps Ye Shall Know Them

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Urbanite - By Michelle Gienow - Mar. 31 (News) - Tele Darden's domestic priorities are to feed her family, then make sure they are warm and comfortable. Most people would do this by going first to the grocery store, then the mall, and once home, turning up the thermostat. For Darden, however, this means growing her family's food in the backyard of their Parkville Cape Cod; learning to knit, weave, and sew their clothing; and, eventually, warming their home with a wood-burning stove—all the better to heat a kettle of homegrown herbal tea sweetened with honey from the bees she plans to keep in the back yard.

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Rising to the Challenge

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Urbanite - By Scott Carlson - Mar. 31 (News) - "Wouldn't it be so cool if we had a bakery and we grew wheat on the roof?" Kristin asked Ruben. It was a joke at the time, but it got them thinking.

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House Approves Fertilizer Ban; Senate Next

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Joel McCord - Mar. 29 (News) - A bill to ban phosphorous and reduce the amount of nitrogen in lawn fertilizer— ingredients that contribute to the bay’s dead zones — passed the House of Delegates overwhelmingly. The Senate has begun debate on its version of the bill.

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Heavy Lobbying By Poultry Industry Keeps Arsenic in Chicken Feed

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Bay Daily - By Tom Pelton - Mar. 23 (News) - After running into heavy opposition from the poultry industry, Maryland legislation that would have outlawed arsenic in chicken feed died in a state House committee this week.

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Should You Join a CSA?

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Towson Patch - By Keri Frisch - Mar. 22 (Opinion) - Community Supported Agriculture can be a great supply of healthy food. Is it for you?

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Whiteley: “We are Literally Being Assessed and Taxed Out of Our Homes, Farms, and Businesses”

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Dagger - By H. LeRoy Whiteley, Jr. - Mar. 16 (Advocacy) - The following letter and testimony are from H. LeRoy Whiteley, Jr., president of Marylanders for Fair Property Taxation, and were sent to the members of Harford County’s delegation to the Maryland General Assembly and the Harford County Council.

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Exposed: Farm Lobby's Purchased "Science" Aims to Halt Chesapeake Bay Cleanup

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Bay Daily - By Tom Pelton - Mar. 16 (Opinion) - During a hearing before a U.S. House agriculture subcommittee today, farm industry advocates hammered EPA to try to force the agency to delay or drop its new pollution limits for the Chesapeake Bay.

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