{"id":23868,"date":"2019-12-03T14:04:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T19:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=23868"},"modified":"2019-12-03T14:44:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T19:44:06","slug":"media-advisory-maryland-department-of-agricultures-annual-tree-lighting-ceremony-set-for-wednesday-december-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2019\/12\/03\/media-advisory-maryland-department-of-agricultures-annual-tree-lighting-ceremony-set-for-wednesday-december-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Advisory: Maryland Department of Agriculture\u2019s Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony Set for Wednesday, December 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ANNAPOLIS, MD <\/strong>\u2013 Join us for the Maryland Department of Agriculture\u2019s annual Tree Lighting Ceremony on Wednesday, December 4 at 4:00 p.m. Every year the department displays a Maryland-grown tree outside its headquarters to encourage residents to support our state\u2019s Christmas tree farmers by buying local holiday trees.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s tree is a 14-foot Douglas Fir donated by Simmons\u2019 Christmas Trees<\/a> in Kent County. Decorations for the tree will include dried gourds painted by the Annapolis High School Art Club and the Annapolis High School National Art Honor Society. Pat and Cindy Hochmuth of Pat’s Produce & Gourds<\/a> in Wicomico County provided the dried gourds.<\/p>\n

Come early to this year\u2019s celebration to enjoy apple desserts, including fresh-baked apple cheese bread, apple walnut brownies, and apple cake, made by the students of the Annapolis High School Culinary Club using local apples from Lohr\u2019s Orchard<\/a> in Harford County. The recipes for these desserts can be found on the Maryland Apple Promotion Board\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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WHAT: Maryland Department of Agriculture\u2019s Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

WHEN: Wednesday, December 4
\n<\/strong>4:00 p.m. \u2014 Department staff and Annapolis High School students\/faculty will arrive
\n4:15 p.m. \u2014 Annual lighting of the tree<\/p>\n

WHERE: Maryland Department of Agriculture Headquarters
\n<\/strong>50 Harry S. Truman Parkway, Annapolis, MD 21401<\/em><\/p>\n

WHO: <\/strong>Maryland Department of Agriculture staff, the Annapolis High School National Art Honor Society, the Annapolis High School Culinary Club, Annapolis High School culinary and art teachers, and Pat Hochmuth of Pat’s Produce & Gourds.<\/p>\n

RSVP: <\/strong>Please confirm attendance by contacting Megan Guilfoyle at 410-841-5889 or megan.guilfoyle@maryland.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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ANNAPOLIS, MD \u2013 Join us for the Maryland Department of Agriculture\u2019s annual Tree Lighting Ceremony on Wednesday, December 4 at 4:00 p.m. Every year the department displays a Maryland-grown tree outside its headquarters to encourage residents to support our state\u2019s Christmas tree farmers by buying local holiday trees. This year\u2019s tree is a 14-foot Douglas  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"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-23868","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\/23868","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\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23868"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23875,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23868\/revisions\/23875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}