Upcoming Events

Come take a tour and enjoy lunch at One Straw Farm, Maryland's largest organic vegetable farm. Tended by Drew and Joan Norman since 1985, One Straw Farm supplies families, restaurants and wholesalers with certified organic produce. Drew will describe the challenges of organic growing as you tour the fields, hoop houses, and warehousing facility, just as the Norman family enters the most busy months of the year. Joan will describe the diversified marketing approach they've adopted, selling at farmers' markets, restaurants, and grocery stores, and how she has grown her CSA business throughout Baltimore, by working with and giving back to the communities she serves. We will see the Normans' progress enabled by funding made available under the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), under a category specifically set aside for organic or transitioning to organic crop production. Hear about their participation in the Organic Cost Share Program and their past experience with a SARE grant to grow no-till.

When: Wednesday, June 16; 10 am–3 pm (lunch provided)

Where: One Straw Farm
            19718 Kirkwood Shop Road, White Hall, MD

$10 for Future Harvest-CASA and PASA members;
$20 for non-members
Register online using Paypal at www.futureharvestcasa.org/calendar.html
For questions, contact Alice Chalmers, 410-549-7878

www.futureharvestcasa.org.