{"id":25229,"date":"2021-03-05T16:01:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T21:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=25229"},"modified":"2021-03-05T16:18:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T21:18:51","slug":"maryland-farm-harvest-visits-garrett-harford-prince-georges-and-queen-annes-counties-during-season-ending-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2021\/03\/05\/maryland-farm-harvest-visits-garrett-harford-prince-georges-and-queen-annes-counties-during-season-ending-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Farm &amp; Harvest Visits Garrett, Harford, Prince George\u2019s, and Queen Anne\u2019s Counties During Season-Ending Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4><strong><i>Episode Celebrates the \u201cBest of\u201d Eight Seasons of MPT Series<\/i><\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_25230\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/Breeding-Bees_NCP_4208-scaled.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25230\" data-attachment-id=\"25230\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2021\/03\/05\/maryland-farm-harvest-visits-garrett-harford-prince-georges-and-queen-annes-counties-during-season-ending-episode\/attachment\/breeding-bees_ncp_4208-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/Breeding-Bees_NCP_4208-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1639&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1639\" 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=\"Breeding Bees_NCP_4208\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Bees from a hive at Hope Honey Farm in Hyattsville. 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\/03\/Breeding-Bees_NCP_4208-scaled.jpg?fit=760%2C487&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-25230\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/Breeding-Bees_NCP_4208.jpg?resize=760%2C487\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/Breeding-Bees_NCP_4208-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C656&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/Breeding-Bees_NCP_4208-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/Breeding-Bees_NCP_4208-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C492&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/Breeding-Bees_NCP_4208-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C984&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/Breeding-Bees_NCP_4208-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1311&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/Breeding-Bees_NCP_4208-scaled.jpg?w=2280 2280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Bees from a hive at Hope Honey Farm in Hyattsville. Photo Credit: Maryland Public Television&#8217;s Maryland Farm &amp; Harvest.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>ANNAPOLIS, MD (March 5, 2021)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\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 Garrett, Harford, Prince George\u2019s, and Queen Anne\u2019s counties during an episode celebrating the \u201cbest of\u201d eight seasons of the popular original series. The final episode of the season airs on Tuesday, March 9 at 7 p.m.\u00a0<\/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><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nearly 10 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 debut. The series has taken MPT viewers to more than 350 farms, fisheries, and other agriculture-related locations during its first eight seasons, covering every Maryland county, as well as Baltimore City and Washington, D.C.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Past episodes can be viewed on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/video.mpt.tv\/show\/maryland-farm-harvest\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MPT\u2019s website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> while episode segments are available on the series\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/MarylandFarmHarvest\/featured\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">YouTube channel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Farm &amp; Harvest<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019s March 9 episode features these four segments from past seasons of the series:\u00a0<br \/><\/span><b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><i>Breeding Bees<\/i><\/b> <b>(Prince George\u2019s County).<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In this season six segment, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Farm &amp; Harvest<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> viewers learned that Maggie Mills of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopehoney.com\/\"><b>Hope Honey Farm<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Hyattsville isn\u2019t an ordinary beekeeper. She raises bees and bottles honey, but her specialty is breeding bees, specifically a process called grafting queens. Through the use of macrophotography, this segment delivers a unique up-close look at how a queen bee ascends to the throne, while explaining to viewers why up to one-third of the food we eat relies on healthy bee colonies. <\/span><b><i>This story originally aired on November 13, 2018, and earned an Emmy\u00ae Award from the National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts &amp; Sciences.<br \/><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b><i>Soy to Soy Oil<\/i><\/b><b> (Queen Anne\u2019s County).<\/b> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Farm &amp; Harvest<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> visited Coleraine Farm in Queen Anne during season four. Here, viewers met farmer Sonny Eaton and got a glimpse of his 3,000-acre farm\u2019s soybean harvest. Then viewers traveled to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perdueagribusiness.com\/oilseeds\/refining\/\"><strong>Perdue Agribusiness Oil Refinery<\/strong><\/a> in Salisbury to see how soybeans are transformed into edible soy oil. <\/span><b><i>This story originally aired on January 17, 2017.<br \/><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b><i>Farm Photographer<\/i><\/b><b> (Harford County). <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During season three,<\/span> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Farm &amp; Harvest<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> profiled <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.remsberg.com\/\"><b>Edwin Remsberg<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a Fallston-based photographer who captures images of agriculture and the work of farmers in Maryland and across the country. While farms can often look picture perfect, Edwin is the person who many farmers call on to capture that beauty. But, photography is not his only talent. Edwin still finds time to raise sheep on his 20-acre Harford County farm. <\/span><b><i>This story originally aired on January 19, 2016.<br \/><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><i>The Local Buy: Mushrooms<\/i><\/b><b> (Garrett County). <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During this season four segment of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Local Buy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, host Al Spoler visits<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/backbonefarm.com\/\"><b>Backbone Food Farm<\/b><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in Oakland where he meets Max and Katharine Dubansky. Here, Al learns about their use of draft horses in place of mechanical tractors on their farm. In this case neither one is needed, as Max shows what it takes to grow mushrooms on logs and bales of straw. Al then<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">gets a taste of mushrooms in a cream cheese spread. The recipe is available on <\/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><b><i>This story originally aired on January 31, 2017.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The March 9 episode also includes a photo montage featuring the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Farm &amp; Harvest<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> staff\u2019s favorite behind-the-scenes moments during eight seasons working on the show.<\/span><\/p>\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\">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\">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>Episode Celebrates the \u201cBest of\u201d Eight Seasons of MPT Series ANNAPOLIS, MD (March 5, 2021)\u00a0\u2013 Maryland Public Television\u2019s (MPT) popular original series Maryland Farm &amp; Harvest, now in its eighth season, will feature farms and locations in Garrett, Harford, Prince George\u2019s, and Queen Anne\u2019s counties during an episode celebrating the \u201cbest of\u201d eight seasons of<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2021\/03\/05\/maryland-farm-harvest-visits-garrett-harford-prince-georges-and-queen-annes-counties-during-season-ending-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-25229","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\/25229","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=25229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25232,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25229\/revisions\/25232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}