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Producers: Goat meat a hot product
ELDERSBURG — When she began to raise goats to sell 15 years ago, Pam Adams used to get one or two calls a month. Today, she gets at least three calls a week. The demand for goat meat is strong, said Adams, president of the Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia Meat Goat Producers Association. More people […]
Baltimore’s two newest farmers markets benefit from growing ‘local food’ movement
Men with briefcases browsed the kale. Women wearing power suits and heels squeeze-tested the fruit. Corporate tycoons mingled with hardcore foodies in a lunchtime crowd that snaked its way through about 10 food and drink vendors who showed up for the debut of the Pratt Street Farmers Market on Thursday.
New model: Grow local, sell global
Imagine entering your neighborhood grocery store and heading over to the apples. Of the half-dozen varieties on display, imagine that four are grown in orchards you’re familiar with or by people whose names you recognize. And as you push your cart through the aisles, you find products manufactured in Maryland on every shelf.
New Windsor farmers start state’s first sheep dairy
NEW WINDSOR — Tucked on the outskirts of New Windsor, Shepherds Manor Creamery is the first sheep dairy in Maryland, making artisan cheeses and delicate soaps from their sheep’s milk, which they sell at special events such as The Maryland Wine Festival in Westminster Sept. 15 and 16. Ten years ago, owners Colleen and Michael […]
Number of U.S. farmers markets surges
FRESNO, Calif. — As demand for locally grown fruits and vegetables has increased, so too has the number of urban farmers markets sprouting up across the nation. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will announce Friday that the number of direct-sales markets has increased 9.6 percent in the past year, with California and New York leading […]
West Frederick market third favorite in state
FREDERICK — The West Frederick Farmers Market was recently voted third favorite market in the state and 15th in the nation in the American Farmland Trust’s America’s Favorite Farmers Markets contest for 2011. The market, held Saturday on Baughman’s Lane off U.S. 40, placed in the top 20 small markets in the country. This was […]
Frederick Farmers Market voted Maryland’s 3rd favorite
FREDERICK — The West Frederick Farmers Market was recently voted third favorite market in the state and 15th in the nation in the American Farmland Trust’s America’s Favorite Farmers Markets contest for 2011. The market, held Saturday on Baughman’s Lane off U.S. 40, placed in the top 20 small markets in the country. This was […]
Getaways: Under the JFX
It isn’t really feeling like spring yet. That’s unfortunate. Nonetheless, Baltimore’s spring-like events are moving forward, rain or shine. The Baltimore Farmers’ Market & Bazaar is opening a month earlier this year, on Sunday. The day starts bright and early at 7 a.m. under the Jones Fall Expressway, and goes until about noon (although some vendors will […]
Maryland entrepreneur runs indoor, year-round farmers market
BRUNSWICK — Beth Johnson was instrumental in opening Urbana Library Farmers Market, which recently completed a successful first year in a new location. Johnson is taking her entrepreneurial skills one step further. She recently opened A Better Choice Bakery and Market — an indoor year-round farmers market on West Potomac Street in Brunswick. “This one […]
