Women in Agriculture
Women agricultural tour scheduled for November
CENTREVILLE, Md. — The Mid-Atlantic Women in Ag and Annie’s Project programs are holding a farm tour in Maryland and Delaware on Nov. 9, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.Cost to attend the tour is $20 per person and includes lunch.Participants will provide their...
NJ-NOFA pioneer Harris a self-starter
HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Stephanie Harris decided more than four decades ago she was going to do something about the world’s pollution and climate troubles. So she embraced organic gardening principles and began to learn as much as she could about restoring...
Piancone turning professional focus to teaching
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP, N.J — Julie Piancone, who graduated from the Career Center in 2017 and is a 2021 graduate of Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, Pa., has returned to Monmouth County Vocational and Technical High School this fall to for a student...
Lansing set to use $6 million grant to study U.S. food waste
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Stephanie Lansing, professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology at the University of Maryland, is leading two new grants totaling $6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop sustainable products like...
‘The universe really aligned’ for Farm Chicks
REISTERSTOWN, Md. — In the midst of a worldwide pandemic, Jamie Condon and Lauren Green, longtime friends and farmers, decided they needed to become business partners. In July, they decided to permanently reincarnate the pop-up farmers’ market that had...
Campbell driven by her loyalty to animals
WEST RIVER, Md. — “I think of my experience as being more of a beginning farmer than anything else,” said Sarah Campbell, owner of New Roots Farm. Yet, the comprehensive amount of information Campbell presented in a recent webinar sponsored by Future...
Baugher travels her way to find where she belongs
ASPERS, Pa. — When Jennifer Baugher left for college to get a degree in international business, she said she envisioned herself doing marketing for a global corporation with the opportunity to travel to far-off locations. “Travel was something I was...
Backyard bartering (Credit Corner)
(Editor’s note: This column was recently featured on MidAtlantic Farm Credit’s podcast, Farm Credit AgVocates. Hear the full interview and more inspiring stories of women in agriculture at mafc.com/podcast.) Emma Jagoz is part of the 36 percent of...
Ag’s ‘not just about making money:’ Jagoz
WOODSBORO, Md. — Emma Jagoz’s concern for her unborn son’s nutrition led her to cultivate her own food.The vegetarian and University of Maryland American Studies graduate began in 2009 by growing arugula on a table on her apartment patio.“I was ... on...
Series of learning circles to run through December
Seeing the forest for the fields and employing farming methods that help to reverse climate change are among the topics that, with virtual tours, help round out the year for women who increasingly work in agriculture or are considering entering the...
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