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A You-Pick ("U-Pick") or Pick-Your-Own (PYO) farm operation is a type of farm gate direct marketing (farm-to-table) strategy where the emphasis is on customers doing the harvesting themselves and agritourism. [1] A PYO farm might be preferred by people who like to select fresh, high quality, vine-ripened produce themselves at lower prices.
Wyoming Farm is a young chestnut and pawpaw orchard that started in 2016 on the grounds at Wyoming. Within 10 years, the orchard will produce fruit and nuts and will serve the Clinton and Washington, DC community by using "Pick Your Own" methods. Tourism opportunities exist in historical tours, permaculture workshops, private events.
Maryland Public Television’s series Maryland Farm & Harvest's Feb. 6 episode includes segment on Clear Spring's Ernst Farm. All to know.
Clark's Elioak Farm is a historic farm and petting zoo located along Maryland Route 108 in Howard County, Maryland, covering 540 acres. All of the acreage is part of county or state farmland protection programs, barring use of the property for non-farm development.
It is located in unincorporated Prince George's County, Maryland, [4] with sections within the Beltsville census-designated place. [5] [6] The BARC is named for Henry A. Wallace, former United States vice president and secretary of agriculture. BARC houses the Abraham Lincoln Building of the National Agricultural Library.
In the 1940's Maryland built Indian Head Highway across the farm. In 1954 the government agreed to sell a 22 acre section that had been cut off by the highway to Prince George's County for a middle school, but then in 1956 it was swapped with the Maryland State Roads Commission for the construction of the Indian Highway/495 interchange.
Hard Bargain Farm is the former country estate and working farm of Alice and Henry Ferguson. It is located at 2001 Bryan Point Road in Accokeek, Maryland, overlooking the Potomac River. The property, now a smaller portion of the 330 acres (130 ha) they purchased, was developed by them into a "country garden". Alice Ferguson, an artist, produced ...
Fairfield farm was a 200-acre farm at the crossroads community of Columbia. The main house on Clarksville Pike (Route 108) was a three-story Victorian with wraparound porches and a Mansard roof . In the 1920s it was the home to Mr. and Mrs. John Lawrence Clark (1853-1924) who also operated a supply store in Ellicott City, becoming the hub of ...