As you are preparing your garden and deciding on your next CSA share, consider making a gift of support to the Medora Harvest Fund.
Your contribution to the Medora Harvest Fund helps provide families in need with access to fresh, organic produce from local farms and Community Supported Agriculture. In addition, your tax-deductible contribution supports local farmers.
LESSON will use your donation to fund the purchase of a share from the farm of your choice, or for a family who you have identified.
The Medora Harvest Fund was founded in honor of Medora Cockey, an organic farming enthusiast who was an inspiration to her family, friends and the farming community.
Calliope Farm is a small-scale family operated farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with 2-3 acres of organically grown fruits, vegetables, and sprouts. We primarily grow open pollinated, heirloom, and regional varieties as well as some well-adapted ethnic and exotic varieties, all chosen for qualities of flavor and nutrition, as well as for the ability to save to our own seed. Our approach to farming is based on the desire to sustain the land that sustains us. We do this by caring for and improving the soil with the use of cover crops, mineral amendments and compost. We are also home to a small flock of laying hens, two horses, 4 barn-cats, and will soon be joined by two Nubian dairy goats.
We believe passionately in the original ideals and philosophies of organic farming, and so are NOT certified organic by the USDA, but have chosen to be Certified Naturally Grown, a grassroots alternative that is truer to the needs of small, diversified, direct-market farms. such as our own.
Fresh from Our Family to Yours Our family farm is dedicated to providing a healthy all natural food source, protecting our precious environment, providing a helping hand to those in need, and building a sustainable future for our family, friends, neighbors, and community.Taylor’s Fresh Organics is a family farm located between Federalsburg, MD and Bridgeville, DE, right along the Maryland-Delaware State Line. Taylor’s Fresh Organics is owned and operated by Bobby, Janna, and their three sons, Austin, Gage, and Kane. The Taylor Family has been farming for five generations on the Eastern Shore, raising livestock and growing vegetables and grain. Bobby Taylor has been farming for ten years on his own, raising many different vegetables and grains conventionally.
Our produce is available through our CSA with pick-up points in Bethesda and Easton, Easton Market Square, certain Whole Foods and other niche markets and is on the menu at Eastern Shore, Baltimore, Washington and Annapolis restaurants which feature fresh, local and sustainably produced ingredients.
Colchester Farm CSA will hold its annual kick-off event at the farm in Georgetown, MD. This will be an opportunity for the community to come out and see the farm, learn about the CSA and connect with people who are involved with the CSA or just share an interest in local food. The event will allow people the opportunity to walk around and see the farm and then to come inside and enjoy music provided by the Swing Strings featuring Nevin Dawson and Pres Harding while sampling wine provided by Terrapin Station Winery and Cassinelli Vineyards. Light refreshments will also be available. Contact Theresa at manager@colchesterfarm.org or visit http://colchesterfarm.org/ for more info.
I started my journey with organic growing four years ago. It is a full-time passion, hobby, exercise, lifestyle, mindset; and part time job. My produce has been purchased by restaurants, a health food store, traded to restaurants, used as landscape and interior decoration, bartered to a commercial fisherman for seafood, given to friends, and it feeds my ducks and chickens on occasion.
CFCSA is a community-based organization that grows pesticide-free vegetables, provides wholesome food, and offers education on sustainable agriculture to its members and surrounding communities. It strives to be an alternative model of farming, dedicated to maintaining the agricultural heritage of the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Vision
CFCSA will lead and inspire a broad movement of people who eat and live in close relationship with their communities and the land. CFCSA will be economically and environmentally self-sustaining and will be recognized as an alternative model of sustainable agriculture by the people of the Eastern Shore.
Homestead farms Inc (HFI) is an organic, community supported, first generation family farm in Millington, MD. Our passion is growing authentic, certified organic food and our commitment is to sustainable, organic farming, public outreach, and education. Each year we market our vegetables through a Community Supported Agriculture shareholder service throughout Maryland. These folks participate in the community by coming to our three annual events, bringing children, friends and family along to enjoy the farm activities. Each person who experiences the farm gains knowledge of what it takes to farm sustainably and organically, how their food is produced, and develops a relationship with the community of shareholders.
We primarily grow open pollinated, heirloom, and regional varieties as well as some well-adapted ethnic and exotic varieties, all chosen for qualities of flavor and nutrition, as well as for the ability to save to our own seed. Our approach to farming is based on the desire to sustain the land that sustains us. We do this by caring for and improving the soil with the use of cover crops, mineral amendments and compost. We are also home to a small flock of laying hens, two horses, 4 barn-cats, and will soon be joined by two Nubian dairy goats.
