ANNAPOLIS, MD (Feb. 15, 2011) \u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) will host the annual Maryland Farmers\u2019 Market Conference on Feb. 16 and 17 to gather more than 100 farmers\u2019 market stakeholders and provide information on state regulations.\u00a0 Sessions will include: food safety, social marketing regulations, and promotional opportunities for the 2011 market season.\u00a0 Visit www.MarylandsBest.net for more details.<\/p>\n
Farmers\u2019 markets have multiplied due to the increase in demand for fresh, local food and will continue to expand.\u00a0 Maryland\u2019s farmers play an important role in providing local, healthy food, saving open farmland, and expanding rural economies.<\/p>\n
MDA\u2019s Marketing Division supports farmers\u2019 market development, fosters links between farmers and consumers through the Maryland\u2019s Best branding program, and administers the Farmers\u2019 Market Nutrition Programs, which provide checks to buy fresh produce for nutritionally at-risk women, infants, children and income-eligible senior citizens while increasing sales for farmers. Visit www.MarylandsBest.net for more details.<\/p>\n
What:
\nMDA will host the annual Maryland Farmers\u2019 Market Conference to gather farmers\u2019 market stakeholders and provide information on state regulations.<\/p>\n
When:
\nFebruary 16 and 17, 2011
\n10 a.m. \u2013 4 p.m. (both days)<\/p>\n
Where:
\nBaltimore County Agricultural Resource Center
\nCockeysville, MD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ANNAPOLIS, MD (Feb. 15, 2011) \u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) will host the annual Maryland Farmers\u2019 Market Conference on Feb. 16 and 17 to gather more than 100 farmers\u2019 market stakeholders and provide information on state regulations.\u00a0 Sessions will include: food safety, social marketing regulations, and promotional opportunities for the 2011 market season.\u00a0 Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[130,915],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-conference","tag-farmers-market"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}