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Vineyard Management Practices in Relation to Soil Health & the Biodynamic Preparations
This two-day workshop includes lectures and field work that will focus on overall soil health and a balanced farm system, which can be achieved through the following areas: cover cropping, compost, biodiversity, and Biodynamic field sprays. You’ll come away with practical information to incorporate one, or all, of these practices into your own vineyard.
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Choose Food Symposium
The Choose Food Project aims to help producers and consumers make ethical food choices by giving them access to easy to use, high-quality information about food. The Project is developing a novel framework for ethical assessment of the food system, as well as educational resources and cutting-edge digital tools about food ethics.
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Future Harvest CASA’s Cultivate the Chesapeake Foodshed
Come join 650+ farmers, chefs, advocates, and foodies for 3 days of learning, networking, and good food at our 17th annual conference!
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Maryland Food System Map
2016
Map
Aquaculture, Farming, Fisheries & Seafood, Food Access, Food Justice, Food Systems, Land Use, Local and Regional Food Systems, Mapping
An interactive map of the many components of Maryland’s food system layered with health and demographic data.
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The Future of Sustainable Farming and Forestry in Maryland
2016
Publication
Forestry, Sustainable Agriculture
Authors: Gregory Bowen Land Stewardship Solutions, Joseph Tassone Maryland Department of Planning, James Baird American Farmland Trust
A study of the effects of smart growth and sustainability initiatives on Maryland’s farming and forestry.
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Growing Food Connections: Exploring Stories of Innovation
Publication
Food Systems
From the Growing Food Connections Project: the Exploring Stories of Innovation series, a series of short articles that explore how local governments from across the United States are strengthening their community’s food system through planning and policy.
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A New Year’s Resolution You’ll Want to Keep: Green Your Community and Reduce Your Food Waste – Lessons From the Field
Join The Chesapeake Foodshed Network for our first webinar of the year! Co-hosted by University of Maryland’s Harry Hughes Center for Agroecology and the Environmental Finance Center, we will be discussing lessons learned in the field while working to reduce Food Waste in the Chesapeake Bay region.
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Cultivate the Cheseapeake Foodshed 17th Annual Conference
Join us January 14-16, 2016 for Future Harvest CASA’s 17th annual Cultivate the Chesapeake Foodshed Conference!
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Upcoming Webinars on Farm Transfer and Land Access in New England
Join American Farmland Trust and Land for Good for two one-hour Webinars on Farm Transfer and Land Access.
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Field to Tray
“Field to Tray: Strengthening Farm to School Purchasing in the Mid-Atlantic,” will bring together farmers, food service professionals , suppliers and other stakeholders from our region for a day of digging in to local food procurement strategies.
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