{"id":8686,"date":"2014-02-26T14:49:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T19:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=8686"},"modified":"2014-03-03T09:02:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T14:02:48","slug":"state-agriculture-agency-and-agriculture-education-foundation-offer-workshops-for-farms-working-with-school-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2014\/02\/26\/state-agriculture-agency-and-agriculture-education-foundation-offer-workshops-for-farms-working-with-school-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"State Agriculture Agency and Agriculture Education Foundation Offer Workshops for Farms Working with School Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"line-height: 1.5em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/09\/FarmToSchool-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6748\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2013\/09\/23\/officials-kick-off-maryland-homegrown-school-lunch-week-in-washington-co-governor-omalley-declares-sept-23-27-as-homegrown-school-lunch-week\/attachment\/farmtoschool-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/09\/FarmToSchool-1.jpg?fit=1171%2C979&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1171,979\" 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;}\" data-image-title=\"FarmToSchool (1)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/09\/FarmToSchool-1.jpg?fit=760%2C635&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-6748\" alt=\"FarmToSchool (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/09\/FarmToSchool-1-300x250.jpg?resize=270%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"270\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/09\/FarmToSchool-1.jpg?resize=300%2C250&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/09\/FarmToSchool-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C856&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/09\/FarmToSchool-1.jpg?w=1171&amp;ssl=1 1171w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>ANNAPOLIS, MD <\/b><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">\u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) and the Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation (MAEF) will be conducting a series of farm-based education workshops throughout March. Please see below for more information on cost and registration.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">March 3 cancelled due to weather. New Date: April 7<\/span> <\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><strong>&#8211; Fox Haven Farm,\u00a0<\/strong>Jefferson, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.\u00a0<em><b>Farm-Based Education: Curriculum and Collaboration. <\/b><\/em>Take a tour of the working educational farm near Frederick. Participate in a model lesson about the American chestnut at the farm&#8217;s own experimental plot. The afternoon will include training in curriculum standards and designing K-12 lessons to use with students visiting your farm, Farm-to-School, and much more.\u00a0Cost: $17 with lunch; $10 without lunch. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/fox-haven-fben-gathering-tickets-10147691017\">Register here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>March 11 &#8211; Montpelier Farms<\/strong>, Upper Marlboro, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.\u00a0<em style=\"line-height: 1.5em\"><b>Farm-Based Education Management: Students to Stats. <\/b><\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">Take a tour and learn how this working farm incorporates agricultural education through dedicated programs and events, farmer&#8217;s market, and a fun destination for families. Share engaging lessons and ideas for K-12 on-farm education, and learn how to keep program records and logs that contain useful information for growing future capacity. We&#8217;ll review any standards updates and how Maryland&#8217;s Environmental Literacy initiative is advancing farm-based education.\u00a0Cost: $10. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/montpelier-farms-fben-gathering-tickets-10147887605\">Register here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>March 26 &#8211; Maryland Agricultural Resource Center<\/strong>, Cockeysville,\u00a09 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. \u00a0<em style=\"line-height: 1.5em\"><b>Farm-Based Education: Curriculum and Collaboration. <\/b><\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">Take a tour of the grounds; meet the educators, and share experiences and ideas that make on-farm agriculture education so much fun. Presentations by experienced farm-based educators will help lay a path for understanding and negotiating the challenges of working with larger school systems. The afternoon will include training in curriculum standards and designing K-12 lessons to use with students visiting your farm, Farm-to-School, and much more.\u00a0Cost: $17 with lunch; $10 without lunch. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/maryland-ag-resource-council-fben-gathering-tickets-9247833519\">Register here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p># # #<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNAPOLIS, MD \u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) and the Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation (MAEF) will be conducting a series of farm-based education workshops throughout March. Please see below for more information on cost and registration. March 3 cancelled due to weather. New Date: April 7 \u00a0&#8211; Fox Haven Farm,\u00a0Jefferson, 9 a.m. to 3:30<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2014\/02\/26\/state-agriculture-agency-and-agriculture-education-foundation-offer-workshops-for-farms-working-with-school-groups\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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-8686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8739,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686\/revisions\/8739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}