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A Great Time to Become a Sustainer

3/27/2017

 
Sign up for secure automatic monthly gifts to support the Ag Reserve all year round and get discounts on MCA events! 
We are about to unleash a bunch of 2017 perks for our sustainers - make sure you are one of them!
The first crops are being planted now but protection of the Ag Reserve (like farming itself) is a year-round job. May we humbly suggest our Sustainer program - a way to support the Ag Reserve all year round through automatic monthly gifts in any amount. New sustainer Susan Pollack writes- 
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"I hate to see the farmland and open spaces around the DC area being developed. The Ag Reserve is crucial, but somehow had dropped out of my consciousness."
Please join Susan and many others in supporting MCA. Gifts are automatic, easy, secure and protect local farms all year round while you do other things. 

2017 Legislative Season

3/24/2017

 
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Protecting our water and food supply, public health, providing greater economic opportunity/benefits for farmers - a number of well aimed bills in Annapolis, in addition to a recently passed provision for urban farming tax credits in Montgomery County, should make residents proud.  The session is not over but for several key bills there is reason for optimism.

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Farmer Profile: The Savage Farm

3/21/2017

 
R.B. Savage & Sons Farm
23035 Mt. Ephraim Road
Dickerson, Maryland
(301) 370-7111 / (301) 370-6442
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Where's the Beef???

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​The answer is that you don’t have to look very far in the Agricultural Reserve to find good suppliers of fresh beef.  One such farm is located in Dickerson, Maryland, where Bruce and Sandy Savage manage the R.B Savage & Sons Farm together with their three sons - Cody, Cory and Colin.  The Savage family’s roots run deep both on their farm and in the Ag Reserve.  Together, they manage about 1,000 acres farmland, including property on their home farm and acreage rented from other landowners in the area. 

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A Few CSA Spots Remain - Hop To It!

3/21/2017

 
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Fergie the sheep leaping at Plow and Stars Farm in Poolesville (Meghan Shapiro)
As spring comes back to warm our hearts- farmers are busy to fill our bellies. There are still a few CSAs with spots open. (Community Supported Agriculture- where you sign on for a season of weekly pickups of seasonal produce from a farm). If you have yet to find your farmer, read on. Still wondering if a CSA is for you? It probably is, but we help you carefully consider that question here.  Read on to find your farmer!

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301-461-9831  •  ​info@mocoalliance.org
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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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