{"id":26676,"date":"2022-07-22T08:40:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T12:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=26676"},"modified":"2022-07-22T08:40:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T12:40:12","slug":"secretary-bartenfelder-presents-unsung-hero-of-maryland-agriculture-award-for-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2022\/07\/22\/secretary-bartenfelder-presents-unsung-hero-of-maryland-agriculture-award-for-may-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Bartenfelder Presents \u201cUnsung Hero of Maryland Agriculture\u201d Award for May 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ANNAPOLIS, MD (July 22, 2022) <\/b>\u2013 Maryland Department of Agriculture Secretary Joe Bartenfelder has announced Young Sook Kim of Baltimore City as the recipient of the May \u201cUnsung Heroes of Maryland Agriculture\u201d award.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After immigrating to Baltimore from South Korea in 1980, Young Sook worked a small family farm with a focus on Korean vegetables. In 1981, Young Sook started the 32nd Street\/Waverly Farmers Market, still in existence today. Today, Young Sook still runs her family farm, promoting agriculture throughout her community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYoung Sook\u2019s <\/span>dedication to promoting agriculture, including her work with the 32nd Street Waverly Farmers Market, has been of tremendous benefit to the Maryland Agricultural community,<\/span> \u201d said Secretary Bartenfelder. \u201cHaving dedicated her life to farming, Young Sook brings knowledge of the industry, demonstrating this through her leadership. I thank her for her decades long work.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cUnsung Heroes of Maryland Agriculture\u201d award was created to honor the contributions of Marylanders working in various roles in the farming and food production industries. The department is accepting nominations on a rolling basis. To submit nominations, please fill out this <\/span>form<\/span><\/a> or contact Denise Burrell at <\/span>denise.burrell@maryland.gov<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Follow Maryland Department of Agriculture on Twitter <\/span>@MdAgDept<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ANNAPOLIS, MD (July 22, 2022) \u2013 Maryland Department of Agriculture Secretary Joe Bartenfelder has announced Young Sook Kim of Baltimore City as the recipient of the May \u201cUnsung Heroes of Maryland Agriculture\u201d award.\u00a0\u00a0 After immigrating to Baltimore from South Korea in 1980, Young Sook worked a small family farm with a focus on Korean vegetables.  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"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-26676","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\/26676","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\/222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26679,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26676\/revisions\/26679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}