{"id":25170,"date":"2021-02-19T13:38:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T18:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=25170"},"modified":"2021-02-19T13:38:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T18:38:26","slug":"mpt-series-maryland-farm-harvest-visits-baltimore-caroline-and-queen-annes-counties-during-feb-23-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2021\/02\/19\/mpt-series-maryland-farm-harvest-visits-baltimore-caroline-and-queen-annes-counties-during-feb-23-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"MPT Series Maryland Farm &amp; Harvest Visits Baltimore, Caroline, and Queen Anne\u2019s Counties During Feb. 23 Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"attachment_25172\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/811-b5-1-1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25172\" data-attachment-id=\"25172\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2021\/02\/19\/mpt-series-maryland-farm-harvest-visits-baltimore-caroline-and-queen-annes-counties-during-feb-23-episode\/attachment\/811-b5-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/811-b5-1-1.jpg?fit=1704%2C952&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1704,952\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"811 b5 (1)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Description: Orchard Point Oyster Company founder Scott Budden (right) and members of his team at work on the Chester River. Photo Credit: Maryland Public Television&amp;#8217;s Maryland Farm &amp;amp; Harvest&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/811-b5-1-1.jpg?fit=760%2C425&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-25172 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/811-b5-1-1.jpg?resize=760%2C425\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/811-b5-1-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C572&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/811-b5-1-1.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/811-b5-1-1.jpg?resize=768%2C429&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/811-b5-1-1.jpg?resize=1536%2C858&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/811-b5-1-1.jpg?w=1704&amp;ssl=1 1704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Photo Description: Orchard Point Oyster Company founder Scott Budden (right) and members of his team at work on the Chester River. Photo Credit: Maryland Public Television&#8217;s Maryland Farm &amp; Harvest<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>ANNAPOLIS, MD <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013 Maryland Public Television\u2019s (MPT) popular original series <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpt.org\/programs\/farm\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Farm &amp; Harvest<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, now in its eighth season, will feature farms and locations in Baltimore, Caroline, and Queen Anne\u2019s counties during a new episode airing on Tuesday, February 23 at 7 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Farm &amp; Harvest<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has been taking viewers on journeys across the state since 2013, telling hundreds of stories about the farms, people, and technology required to sustain and grow agriculture in Maryland, the state\u2019s number one commercial industry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Farm &amp; Harvest<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019s February 23 episode features the following segments:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b><i>Horse Therapy Changes Lives <\/i><\/b><b>(Baltimore County).<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The episode starts with a visit to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellspringlifefarm.org\/\"><b>Wellspring of Life Farm<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Monkton, where people of all ages come for healing. Founder Dawn Leung offers equine and canine therapeutic activities to help individuals dealing with physical, emotional, and cognitive challenges. Brain Silva has been coming to the farm for more than a year following a devastating car accident. He looks forward to the support and companionship that Magic, a four-year-old horse, provides. The farm serves all ages, and one of its eldest participants is 99-year-old veteran Orville Hughes, who enjoys grooming the horses.<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b><i>The Environmental Benefit of Raising Oysters<\/i><\/b><b> (Queen Anne\u2019s County).<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orchardpointoysters.com\/\"><b>Orchard Point Oyster Company<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Stevensville, founder Scott Budden and his team manage the roughly six million oysters they grow on a float lease on the Chester River. While the COVID-19 pandemic has hurt sales, there is good news for the industry. The new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mde.maryland.gov\/programs\/Water\/WQT\/Pages\/index.aspx\"><b>Water Quality Trading Program<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> enables organizations to buy and sell nutrient credits. This means organizations who discharge nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, like a wastewater treatment plant, can trade credits with Orchard Point, whose oysters help remove these nutrients. This program helps improve the Chesapeake Bay\u2019s water quality and encourages the growth of oyster aquaculture.<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b><i>Ask a Farmer: What\u2019s your favorite job on the farm?<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In this new segment, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Farm &amp; Harvest<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> producers interview farmers from across the state on a variety of topics<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2013 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">this time it\u2019s about their favorite farm jobs. Viewers meet farmers from White Hall, Westminster, and Eden.\u00a0<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b><i>The Local Buy: From Dairy Farmer to Berry Farmer <\/i><\/b><b>(Caroline County).<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Prior to the pandemic, segment host Al Spoler visited Jack King at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingsberries.com\/\"><b>Kings Organic Farm<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Ridgely. For 35 years Jack raised and bred cattle and he now works for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But, his retirement plan includes a six-acre farm filled with organic blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries. Al tours the farm and learns how Jack uses compost to fertilize his plants. Then, Al heads into the kitchen with Jack\u2019s wife Vicky King, who shares a delicious recipe for blackberry cobbler. The recipe will be available at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpt.org\/programs\/farm\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mpt.org\/farm<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New episodes of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Farm &amp; Harvest<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> air on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. on MPT-HD and are live-streamed on MPT\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpt.org\/anywhere\/live-stream-mpt\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Encore broadcasts are available on MPT-HD Thursdays at 11 p.m. and Sundays at 6 a.m. Each episode also airs on MPT2\/Create\u00ae on Fridays at 7:30 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All past episodes can be viewed at<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MPT\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/video.mpt.tv\/show\/maryland-farm-harvest\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Specific segments can be found on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Farm &amp; Harvest<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/MarylandFarmHarvest\/featured\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">YouTube channel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Series host Joanne Clendining, who recently earned her second Emmy\u00ae award from the National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts &amp; Sciences for her work on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Farm &amp; Harvest<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, returns for season eight. She is joined by Al Spoler who handles duties for each episode\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Local Buy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> segment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ten million viewers have tuned in to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Farm &amp; Harvest<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> since its 2013 debut. The series has taken MPT viewers to more than 400 farms, fisheries, and other agriculture-related locations, covering every Maryland county, as well as Baltimore City and Washington, D.C.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Maryland Department of Agriculture is MPT&#8217;s co-production partner for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Farm &amp; Harvest<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Major funding is provided by the Maryland Grain Producers Utilization Board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additional funding is provided by Maryland&#8217;s Best, Maryland Agricultural Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation (MARBIDCO), MidAtlantic Farm Credit, Rural Maryland Council, Maryland Agricultural Education and Rural Development Assistance Fund (MAERDAF), Maryland Soybean Board, Maryland Association of Soil Conservation Districts, Wegmans Food Markets, Maryland Nursery, Landscape &amp; Greenhouse Association, Seafood Marketing Advisory Commission, Maryland Farm Bureau, and The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other support comes from the Mar-Del Watermelon Association, Eddie Mercer Agri-Services, Inc., and the Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation (MAEF).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">###<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Follow Maryland Department of Agriculture on Twitter<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MdAgDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@MdAgDept<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNAPOLIS, MD \u2013 Maryland Public Television\u2019s (MPT) popular original series Maryland Farm &amp; Harvest, now in its eighth season, will feature farms and locations in Baltimore, Caroline, and Queen Anne\u2019s counties during a new episode airing on Tuesday, February 23 at 7 p.m. Maryland Farm &amp; Harvest has been taking viewers on journeys across the<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2021\/02\/19\/mpt-series-maryland-farm-harvest-visits-baltimore-caroline-and-queen-annes-counties-during-feb-23-episode\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/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-25170","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\/25170","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=25170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25174,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25170\/revisions\/25174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}