MPT’s Maryland Farm & Harvest Season Seven Premieres November 12

ANNAPOLIS, MD – Maryland Public Television’s (MPT) popular original series Maryland Farm & Harvest, returns for its seventh season on November 12 with the first of 13 new half-hour episodes airing on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. on MPT-HD.

Maryland Farm & Harvest takes viewers on journeys across the state, telling stories about the farms, people, and technology required to sustain and grow Maryland’s number one industry: agriculture. MPT’s production team has filmed episode segments at more than four dozen farms in preparation for the new season. The first episode alone takes viewers to locations in Baltimore, Carroll, Harford, and Frederick Counties.

The new season of the weekly series also features themed episodes focused on farming education, women in farming, beverages made from Maryland farm products, farm demographics, and a special end-of-year holiday episode.

A short season seven preview can be viewed here. More series information is available at mpt.org/farm, and viewers can join the conversation on social media at the hashtag #MDFarmHarvest.

Series host Joanne Clendining, who earned an Emmy® award from the National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for her work on Maryland Farm & Harvest, returns for season seven. She is joined by Al Spoler, co-host of WYPR-FM’s “Cellar Notes” and “Radio Kitchen” programs, who handles duties for each episode’s The Local Buy segment.

More than nine million viewers have tuned in to Maryland Farm & Harvest since its 2013 debut. The series, which earlier this year earned two additional Emmy Awards for episodes during its sixth season, has taken MPT viewers to 300 farms, fisheries, and other agriculture-related locations during its first six seasons, covering every Maryland county, as well as Baltimore City and Washington, D.C.

Maryland Farm & Harvest airs on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. on MPT-HD and is rebroadcast on Thursdays at 11:30 p.m. and Sundays at 6 a.m. Each show also airs on MPT2/Create® on Fridays at 7:30 p.m. Past episodes of the series can be viewed at https://video.mpt.tv/show/maryland-farm-harvest/.

The Maryland Department of Agriculture is MPT’s co-production partner for Maryland Farm & Harvest. Major funding is provided by the Maryland Grain Producers Utilization Board.

Additional funding is provided by Maryland’s Best; the Maryland Agricultural Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation; MidAtlantic Farm Credit; the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program; the Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation; the Rural Maryland Council; and the Maryland Soybean Board.

Other support comes from the Maryland Association of Soil Conservation Districts; Wegmans Food Markets; the Maryland Nursery, Landscape & Greenhouse Association; the Maryland Seafood Marketing Fund; the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service; the Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc.; the Maryland Farm Bureau; The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment; Mar-Del Watermelon Association; Eddie Mercer Agri-Services, Inc.; and Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission.

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