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April Local Food Happy Hour special screening Event with the creators of the film Harvests of Hope. Where: Area 31 31 East Patrick Street Frederick, Maryland 21701 When: April 21st Doors open at 6:00pm, movie starts at 7:00 Cost: We are asking for a $10 minimum donation. On April 21st Community FARE will be hosting […]
They’re heeeeeeeere! The Carbon Farming Solution – fresh out of the box. Agriculture is rightly blamed as a major culprit of our climate crisis. But in this groundbreaking new book, Eric Toensmeier argues that agriculture—specifically, the subset of practices known as “carbon farming”—can, and should be, a linchpin of a global climate solutions platform. Get […]
The Maryland Food System Map Project (MFSMP) was developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. It is an interactive mapping tool and database and other tools that anyone can use to examine the current landscape of Maryland’s food system from farm to plate – including how food […]
Local food. Everybody wants it. Many people are growing it. However, there is a disconnect between growers and eaters. There are more than a thousand acres of unused, fallow land in Frederick County that farmers could be growing on while consumers from individuals to large institutions are clamoring for more local food. So what is […]
The Chesapeake Foodshed Network is a group of organizations, agencies, and individuals working across the Chesapeake watershed to build a stronger and more resilient food system. CFN hosts coffee talk webinars; Community FARE participated in today’s webinar “Maryland Grown: A review of production and consumption in Maryland. Participating with CFN was the John Hopkins Center for […]
A great gathering of people interested in working on access to local food in our community. With us on Wednesday night were Haile Johnston, CEO and founder of Common Market Philadelphia (a 7-year old and thriving aggregator, distributor and marketer for local food from farms around Philly to the people in it) and CMP Fellow, […]
Join us at the Lazy Fish to talk a regional food system, and regenerative organic agriculture. Grab a drink at the Lazy Fish bar and bring it up to the 3rd floor. We hope to have 2 discussions during this 1.5 hours: – about a regional food system led by Haile Johnston, CEO of the Common […]
Maryland farmers are making their own inspiring stories about producing food for the region on leased land. Read the story.
Friends Meeting School’s new staff farmer wants to create an organic farm at its Ijamsville campus. Denzel Mitchell runs Five Seeds Farm with his wife and five children in Baltimore County. The head of the school, Mara Nicastro, announced Wednesday that Mitchell would be moving his family farm to the Ijamsville campus. Read the article.
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