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Local Food Connections

Supporting local is good for the environment, the community, your health, and to create a lasting commitment to preserving agricultural land.  MCA is working hard to gather information about local producers and growers in Montgomery County and connect them all via our website.  Please email us at [email protected] if you have info you think we should add to our  lists.
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Community Food Rescue

Community Food Rescue (CFR) is the coordinated food recovery network for Montgomery County, Maryland. This system enhances the good work of businesses, individuals, and organizations that already recover and redistribute perfectly good food to people experiencing hunger. MCA is proud to partner with CFR to feed more and waste less.
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Who's Your Farmer? Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
CSAs are a farm subscription, you pay for a season's worth of produce and pick it up weekly through the growing season. This is the most direct way to support local farms and ensures you get the freshest food all season long. 
Find a Farmers Market
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Farmers Markets provide a direct connection to local farms and they connect communities together. 


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Montgomery County Agricultural
​Reserve Resource Guide

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Montgomery County Office of Agriculture


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Maryland’s Best

Maryland’s Best is your source to find the best local products from Maryland farmers. From produce, seafood, and specialty foods to grains, nursery items, and ag-recreational activities. Find everything you need and more!

So. Maryland So Good

So. Maryland, So Good is a campaign designed to help consumers identify truly Southern Maryland products and buy accordingly. By building a direct link between buyers and growers of the five Southern Maryland counties, and promoting the advantages of buying local, we hope to help keep farming vibrant and vital in Southern Maryland
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Buy Local Challenge

Take the Buy Local Challenge by pledging to eat one thing from a local farm each day during buy local week (the last week of July each year.) Buying local food helps keep food dollars in our community, protects farmland from development and local food is just plain tasty, the freshest food around

American Farmland Trust, Maryland Office

A national farmland preservation organization focusing on farm policy with offices in each state.
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ABOUT US
What We Do
A Brief History
Board & AC
Staff & Volunteers
Contact
​​Buy MCA Gear
ABOUT Ag RESERVE
History of the Ag
Benefits of the Ag
Farm Facts
Threats to the Ag
​A Place with Purpose
NEWS
EVENTS
Local Events
Ride for the Reserve
Royce Hanson Award
SUPPORT LOCAL
Ag Guide
Local Food Connection
Community Supported Agriculture
Restaurants & Retail
​Artists of the Reserve
COMMUNITY RESOURCES
​Land Link
Producer's Resources
Directory of Services
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Montgomery Countryside Alliance
P.O Box 24, Poolesville, MD  20837
301-461-9831  •  ​[email protected]
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MCA is proud to announce that we have been recognized for a third time as one of the best small charities in the D.C. region by Catalogue for Philanthropy: Greater Washington. A panel of 110 expert reviewers from area foundations, corporate giving programs, and peer non-profit organizations evaluated 270 applications.

​MCA is known as an effective and innovative non-profit whose efforts to preserve and promote Montgomery County’s nationally recognized 93,000 acre Ag Reserve have brought increased public and governmental support of local food production and farmland and open space preservation. Most importantly, MCA’s efforts are putting more farmers on the ground and keeping them there.
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