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The 2022 Royce Hanson Award Honors Jane Perini and Wib Middleton of PLENTY Magazine

10/12/2022

 
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Jane Perini and Wib Middleton with Bowie
​We take great pleasure in announcing the 2022 Royce Hanson – Ag Reserve Champion honorees: Jane Perini and Wib Middleton – PLENTY Magazine

PLENTY has emerged as an important resource that inspires, educates, unifies, and uplifts. Please join us in congratulating them! (You can support MCA's Ag education efforts through PLENTY magazine here)
​Wib Middleton writes (because that is what he does):
​Having moved back to the area in 2018 after living in Arizona for almost twenty years, Jane Perini and Wib Middleton landed on the edge of the Ag Reserve in the Seneca area. It was May and the iridescent explosion of green was quite a vivid contrast to crimson-spired, high-desert Sedona. Early morning forays with camera in tow on back roads exploring miles and miles of forever farmland and gorgeous countryside begged the questions: what was this Ag Reserve, how did it come into being and was anyone telling its stories?
 
Conversations ensued with MCA about the possibility of creating a hyper-local magazine all about this treasured asset comprising 1/3 of Montgomery County. Caroline Taylor of MCA and other longtime stakeholders were most encouraging and hugely helpful.  Together with long time stakeholders we enrolled local writers, nonprofit heads, farmers, and other Reserve dwellers open to telling their stories about life and work in the Reserve. Based on that we launched PLENTY magazine in summer of 2019.
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Eleven issues later and three years in, PLENTY magazine has become a beloved local publication only possible by the abundant outpouring of gifted volunteer writers, photographers, distribution partners and the incredible family of PLENTY advertisers…all who collaborate with each issue to make it all possible.
 
For Wib and Jane, PLENTY is a labor of love to help inform, inspire and engage its readers about the preciousness of Ag Reserve farmland and open spaces, local history, culture, artisans, entrepreneurs and heroes—the farmers, CSA organizers, nonprofits helping with food insecurity and new farming trends. There are many more stories to tell from the stakeholders and stewards who love the Ag Reserve and protect it.
 
To be selected as awardees for the 2022 Royce Hanson Award is completely unexpected and so appreciated. PLENTY magazine is a reflection of all of us who have a stake in this area’s food and farming future. In this spirit and understanding we share this award with all of you. These are your stories, your struggles, your life’s work that show up in the magazine. We are the newcomers who are grateful and humbled to create a magazine to tell your stories.
Wib and Jane - from Maryland to Arizona and back again. 
The rave reviews for PLENTY are rolling in: 

How have I lived 20+ years in this county and never heard about the wonderful Agricultural Reserve? This publication is a gem. I’d probably know more if I haunted more farmers markets. But I don’t and that’s a shame. I wonder how many other MoCo residents are the same as me. I guess the time is right and better late than never to learn about this resource. So thanks for your work. Cheers!          
    ~ Jimilee Komolafe
 
Another GREAT issue of Plenty—you do such a terrific job!! Beautiful photos and well written articles. Your magazine just gets better with each issue. Thank you so much for your support of our Ag Reserve.
     ~ Sue Kingsbury Ketron 


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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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