Maryland Celebrates Natural Farmers Market Week Event
Maryland marked Natural Farmers Market Week from August 5 to 11 with a mid day market festival at Baltimore Harbor. Officials including Department of Agriculture Secretary Hagner Mister and Deputy Secretary Hradley Pudkers joined local farmers from One Meetraputlan area and Wallerian queens to honor leadership and support for farmer markets.
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Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network map and guide
A map and guide for the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network offers extended information about the network and its participating destinations. This system of parks refuges museums historic communities and water trails helps people experience and understand the watershed. For a copy of the map and guide call 866 BAY WAYS.
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Horticulture class offered by Montgomery College and Brookside Gardens
Montgomery College and Brookside Gardens offer a plant materials class on identifying trees shrubs vines and groundcovers in Maryland landscapes. Sessions run 1 to 4 40 pm from Monday Sept 11 at Brookside Gardens visitors center Wheaton. Open to high school students or anyone over 18 with tuition waivers for seniors. Contact Steve at 301 353 7803 or sdubik at me.ccmdus to register online at montgomerycollege.org.
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Ladew fall lectures feature gardening, bay talks
Ladew Topiary Gardens hosts a fall lecture series at 10 30 a m in the Ladew Studio Monkton with coffee at 19 a m and optional lunch 12 reservations in advance 20 for members 25 for non members Anne Raver chronicles Adventures of Gardening on the Tani Farm Sept 20 a book signing follows Water's Way Reflections on the Chesapeake Bay Sept 27 with Tom Horton and David Harp discussion on bay state land use water quality book signings call 410 557 9466 or visit ladengardens com
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Behnke Nurseries and Ladew Topiary Gardens Calendar
A calendar of horticultural events with Aug and Sept seminars at Behnke Nurseries Beltsville Laden Topiary Gardens Monkton and Brookside Gardens Wheaton. Highlights include Perennials Division to Multiply Aug 11 and Creating Garden Ambience Aug 18, Maggie Sansone Concert Aug 19, and Garden Gala Sept 15. Also features Car Show Aug 12 and Children’s Day Sept 9 plus lectures on the Chesapeake Bay and family farming.
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Chesapeake
Automobile Club of America
Laden Topiary Gardens
Monkton
Maggie Sansone
Ranchers rethink ranches in New Mexico
Jim Williams, a lifelong rancher in Quemado, New Mexico, joins the Quivira Coalition efforts to restore sustainable grazing on forest lands amidst low beef prices. The program promotes the New Ranch model with timed grazing, wildlife and stream restoration, and has led Williams to adopt complex rotation to boost production while preserving his family ranch.
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Fall Webworm Nuisance Onends of Tree Branches
The fall webworm, also called the fail webworm, appears annually with nests at branch ends through October. It defoliates branch tips but does not threaten tree health. Control is by pruning nests. if needed, Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki is safer than chemicals. Read labels and call 800-342-6607 for pesticide information.
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Longer growing season a mixed blessing across regions
The piece notes a longer growing season linked to earlier frost-free dates, with cherry blossoms at the National Mall and lilacs blooming earlier. Smithsonian botanists cite Washington DC’s season lengthening by about four and a half days since 1970, while Champaign-Urbana reports around 20 extra frost-free days for crops.
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Maize maze opens at Portsmouth dairy showcase
An experimental maze at a dairy farm in Portsmouth designed by Adrian Fisher Maze Design features 312 corridors and a model of Hari Zan’s mascot Happy the Cow. Visitors follow flags to exits with staff guidance and plan a larger event next year as the farm offers hayrides alongside the maze.
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Pests ruin hard work in Pound Ridge vegetable patch
The article describes deer and other wildlife as major pests damaging vegetables and ornamentals. It explains pest control ideas including electric fencing, chicken wire, deterrents, interplanting, and organic fertilizer, noting deer spread Lyme disease and that fencing must evolve to block burrowing animals.
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St Tie County
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