{"id":2040,"date":"2010-10-27T17:38:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T17:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2012-10-16T17:39:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T17:39:38","slug":"agriculture-secretary-visits-carroll-county-schools-to-present-farm-to-school-youth-video-contest-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2010\/10\/27\/agriculture-secretary-visits-carroll-county-schools-to-present-farm-to-school-youth-video-contest-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture Secretary Visits Carroll County Schools to Present Farm-to-School Youth Video Contest Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANNAPOLIS, MD (Oct. 27, 2010) \u2013 Today, Maryland Agriculture Secretary Buddy Hance visited Liberty High and Sykesville Middle schools to present awards to the winners of its first statewide Farm to School student video contest. As one of two Grand Prize winners for their video, \u201cMaryland Farm to School,\u201d Raleigh and Owen Linville and Robert Penn, from Liberty High School each received Apple iPod Touch, 2011 Maryland State Park Passports and Maryland\u2019s Best tote bags.\u00a0 The Popular Prize winner was \u201cLocal Food News\u201d by Maureen Grauel, Kelsea and Shannon Floyd, students at Sykesville Middle School.\u00a0 They each received 2011 Maryland State Park Passports and Maryland\u2019s Best tote bags.\u00a0 A visit with the second Grand Prize winner, Fiona Voeks, from Rocky Hill Middle School in Montgomery County is being scheduled.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was wonderful to meet these kids and see their enthusiasm for buying local. They are our future consumers and already understand the connections between fresh, local food and our farms, our health and our environment,\u201d said Agriculture Secretary Hance. \u201cWe congratulate them on their video productions and look forward to running the contest next year\u201d<\/p>\n

Each winning video answered the question, \u201cWhat does \u2018local food\u2019 mean to you?\u201d\u00a0 Fifteen videos were submitted for the inaugural contest. Students demonstrated their creativity with video content ranging from skits to interviewing farmers to the abstract.\u00a0 Contestants were from Anne Arundel, Carroll, Cecil, Montgomery, St. Mary\u2019s and Talbot counties and Baltimore City. The students ranged in age from 2nd graders to high school seniors.\u00a0\u00a0 Judges included representatives of the agricultural community, Maryland Department of Agriculture, Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation, Maryland State Department of Education, and the film industry.\u00a0 The passes were donated by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.<\/p>\n

The contest was part of the Jane Lawton Farm-to-School Program, which was established to bring more locally grown food to Maryland schools and to educate students about the importance of local agriculture.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Governor Martin O’Malley officially designated September 13-17, 2010, as Maryland Homegrown School Lunch Week.<\/p>\n

The demand for Maryland-grown food is growing. Buying locally is a key to ensuring a smart, green and growing future for Maryland families. It preserves farmland, protects the environment, bolsters local economies, and promotes health by providing wholesome, nutritious, great-tasting fresh food.<\/p>\n

To view all of the video submissions, visit http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/marylandsbest1.\u00a0 For more information about Maryland Farm to School log onto www.marylandfarmtoschool.org.<\/p>\n

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ANNAPOLIS, MD (Oct. 27, 2010) \u2013 Today, Maryland Agriculture Secretary Buddy Hance visited Liberty High and Sykesville Middle schools to present awards to the winners of its first statewide Farm to School student video contest. As one of two Grand Prize winners for their video, \u201cMaryland Farm to School,\u201d Raleigh and Owen Linville and Robert  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2041,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/2041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}