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| Tuesday, April 03, 2012 |
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MDA To Host Screening Of Documentary "The Maryland Harvest" To Air On MPT (11:30 am - 12:30 - noon)
The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) will host a screening of the upcoming documentary “The Maryland Harvest”. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with some of those featured in the piece.
The Maryland Harvest is scheduled to air on MPT on April 17 at 9 p.m., during Chesapeake Bay Week. The screening at MDA will show about 20 minutes of the hour-long broadcast. Media representatives are invited to attend.
Maryland Department of Agriculture, 50 Harry S. Truman Parkway, Annapolis.
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| Wednesday, April 04, 2012 |
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Small Fruit Production (7:30 pm - 8:30 pm)
Varieties for our area, care, maintenance and more. We will have a question and answer session so please bring any questions you may have. Topics include strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and other brambles. Bryan Butler will be speaking!
Baltimore County Center for Maryland Agriculture
1114 Shawan Road
Cockeysville, MD 21030
Contact Info : RSVP by April 2 at 410-666-1033 or bcfb@hotmail.com or wendydil@umd.edu.
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| Thursday, April 05, 2012 |
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| Saturday, April 07, 2012 |
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| Tuesday, April 10, 2012 |
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Get FRESH! (5:00 am - 9:00 am)
Future Harvest CASA is a partner in presenting Get FRESH!, an evening of film, food and a provocative and inspiring discussion with special guest Ana Joanes, producer and director of the documentary Fresh. Along the way we'll raise funds to help Helen P. Denit Honors students build energy-efficient stoves for indigenous Mayan community members in Guatamala this summer.
Lucy and Vernon Wright Theater
University of Baltimore Student Center
21 W. Mt. Royal Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21201
Contact Info : Kelly McPhee
UB Helen P. Denit Honors Program
410-837-4057
kmcphee@ubalt.edu
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Producer’s Digital Toolbox (8:30 am - 1:30 pm)
The Producer’s Digital Toolbox is a suite of seminars that will be offered at several venues starting in April 2012. These seminars will assist University of Maryland Extension clients in capitalizing on the hardware and management systems tools now available through the Web.
Contact Info : WOR-WIC Community College
32000 Campus Drive
Salisbury, MD
Shannon Dill, sdill@umd.edu
Email : sdill@umd.edu
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| Wednesday, April 11, 2012 |
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Urban Workshop Series: Part I And II (6:00 am - 9:00 am)
Part I: City Laws and Resources
Part II: Marketing Baltimore’s Urban Famers
OPEN to anybody interested in starting an urban farm, the 2012 Urban Workshop Series will focus on skills and resources for getting started, marketing your products, relating to neighbors, testing your soil, and much more.
Clifton Mansion - 2701 St. Lo Drive, Baltimore, MD
$5 per session or $10 for all three courses
TO REGISTER, send your name/phone/email/address to
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or call 410-366-8533 x 203. Advance registration recommended.
Email : realfoodfarm@civicworks.com
Url: http://futureharvestcasa.org/
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Aquaculture Workshop For Southern Maryland (9:00 am - 2:30 pm)
The University of Maryland Extension and the Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission (SMADC) will host a workshop for those engaged in, or interested in, aquaculture at the SMECO auditorium, 15035 Burnt Store Road, Hughesville, MD 20637.
Topics for the workshop include lease availability, ground management, harvest regulations; information on the Remote Setting Training Program with results of 2011 plans, plus rules and scheduling for 2012 finance programs, marketing and more.
Workshop fee of $10 includes lunch; RSVP is requested by April 4 for lunch.
Contact Info : To register contact Cia Morey: cmorey@smadc.com or call (301) 274-1922, Ex. 1.
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| Saturday, April 14, 2012 |
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Tractor Operation And Maintenance (All Day)
This two-day, hands-on workshop demystifies tractors and empowers their users to operate and maintain their machines more safely, and with greater skill and confidence. Day one focuses on the fundamentals of tractor operation; reviewing everything from the historical purpose and use of tractors to the functions and safe use of all of the pedals and levers, the drawbar, power take-off (PTO), and the front-end loader. We will end the first day with tractor driving practice for the novices in the class.
The second day is a hands-on lesson in do-it-yourself tractor maintenance, performing a variety of routine tractor maintenance chores including oil and filter change, coolant change, hydraulic-transmission fluid and filter change, air filter replacement, fuel filter replacement, belt tension adjustment, battery care, and a range of other do-it-yourself tasks that are typically performed at regularly scheduled intervals. Workshop materials including a tractor user’s resource list will be provided.
Contact Info : The Accokeek Foundation 3400 Bryan Point Road Accokeek, MD 20607
Email : accofound@accokeek.org
Url: http://accokeekfoundation.org/tractor-operation-and-maintenance/
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| Tuesday, April 17, 2012 |
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| Thursday, April 19, 2012 |
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MD Grazers - Spring Field Trip - RSVP (10:00 am - 2:00 pm)
Meat Cutting Demonstration for Grass Farmers-lunch included (with freshly cut beef)
Blue Ridge Meats in Front Royal, VA has offered to host the Grazers Network for a firsthand look at how your meats are processed. Doug and Lois Aylestock are butchers with a passion for, and strong understanding of, grass-finished meats.
They will give us the run of their shop for the day to teach us about processing grass-finished meats – and answer all of your questions. Come learn how your meat is cut and how it might be done better
Pre-registration is required and space is limited
Contact Info : RSVP to mheller@cbf.org
Email : mheller@cbf.org
Url: http://www.blueridgemeats.com/
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| Friday, April 20, 2012 |
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Producer’s Digital Toolbox (8:30 am - 1:30 pm)
The Producer’s Digital Toolbox is a suite of seminars that will be offered at several venues starting in April 2012. These seminars will assist University of Maryland Extension clients in capitalizing on the hardware and management systems tools now available through the Web.
Contact Info : Chesapeake College
Wye Mills, MD
Email : sdill@umd.edu
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| Wednesday, April 25, 2012 |
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Cover Crops For Early Spring Vegetables And Measuring Nutrients In The Field (5:30 pm - 7:30 pm)
Dr. Ray Weil and Natalie Lounsbury of the University of Maryland will give a tour of their experimental plots using forage radish, spring oats and other winterkilled cover crops for early spring vegetable planting without herbicides. The experiment includes tilled and no-till treatments and a variety of early spring vegetables. There will be equipment demos of modified push seeders for no-till planting and Dr. Weil will demonstrate how to take soil samples for nutrient analysis and new field techniques for measuring nitrate, potassium and pH in the field. Use of the pre-sidedress nitrate test for vegetable.
To register please call the University of Maryland Extension Carroll County Office at 410-386-2760 or send an e-mail to
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with attendee name(s) and telephone number(s).
Contact Info : 4240 Folly Quarter Road
Ellicott City, Maryland
Email : chill1@umd.edu
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Poultry Processing And Marketing Group Organization Meeting (7:00 pm - 8:00 pm)
Got poultry? Need them processed? Looking to rein in production costs through group purchases and services? Could you use an additional volume market for your sustainable raised poultry? Then you need to attend an information and organizational meeting of a new group forming in Central Maryland whose mission is to:
- Provide safe, environmentally responsible, and economically feasible processing services to small and mid-sized poultry producers.
- Organize a buying group for chicks, poults, feeds, and poultry supplies to secure quantity discounts.
- Provide training and continuing education about regulations, marketing, and production.
- Service volume sales accounts through aggregation of group member birds to provide an additional outlet to group members and sufficient supplies to volume buyers.
This new community development and economic development initiative is sponsored by the University of Maryland Extension’s Rural Enterprise Development Center with funding provided by a Northeast SARE Partnership grant.
Where: Farmer Tom’s
427 Cockeys Mill Road
Reisterstown, MD 21136
Contact Info : Please contact Ginger Myers, University of Maryland Extension, 301-432-2767, ext. 338 to register.
Email : gsmyers@umd.edu
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| Friday, April 27, 2012 |
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Maryland Dietetic Association Annual Meeting (8:00 am - 9:00 am)
he Maryland Dietetic Association will host its annual meeting at The Maritime Institute in Linthicum Heights, Maryland. Our annual meeting attracts approximately 250 attendees. We welcome you to take advantage of this opportunity to reach out and network with a diverse group of nutrition professionals from Maryland and neighboring states.
Email : Amy.Isennock@gmail.com
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| Saturday, April 28, 2012 |
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Who Wants To Be An Urban Farmer? (8:30 am - 12:30 - noon)
The second “Who Wants to be an Urban Farmer” is a morning of workshops that provide the opportunity to learn specific production techniques utilized at urban farms in Baltimore, Maryland. Each workshop will present a different specialized tool to growing food for production in Baltimore City. The workshops will be focused on urban farming and production, and presented in a scope and scale able to be transferred to backyards and open urban green space. The best recipients of the workshops will be new urban farmers, and home and community gardeners looking to improve their operations with efficiency, diversification, and output. Suggested donation is a sliding scale of $5-15. Donations will be accepted online through Eventbrite or at the workshops.
Url: http://rff-urbanfarmerworkshops.eventbrite.com/
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| Sunday, April 29, 2012 |
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