Looks like it will be at least another year before we see any raw milk for sale in Maryland. State legislators in Annapolis this week gave a thumbs down to unpasteurized milk despite the best lobbying efforts of the Maryland Independent Consumers and Farmers Association. Members of the House of Delegates’ Health and Government Operations […]
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Throughout the winter CSA season, our farmer friend Brett will occasionally include a chicken with our weekly produce delivery. This is one of his laying hens. People sometimes tell Brett the chicken is tough. Brett says, cook the chicken longer. By that he does not mean an hour or two. He means three or four […]
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I may have mentioned before that one of my heroes is Ward Sinclair. Ward was a colleague–on the other side of the newsroom–at The Washington Post back in the 80s. He covered agriculture, but left the paper to buy a small farm in Warfordsburg, PA. While Ward was busy farming, he also started writing a […]
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