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About one half of the county's farm land was converted to non-farm ownership by the 1960s. [2]: 12 The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission noted a loss of 18,768 acres (75.95 km 2) acres of farm land over an 8-year period in the 1970s, an average of 2,346 acres/year. [2]: 14
Agriculture is an important part of Maryland's economy. The US state of Maryland has large areas of fertile agricultural land in its coastal and Piedmont zones, though this land use is being encroached upon by urbanization.
The Howard County Conservancy is a non-profit land trust that operates a nature center in Woodstock, Maryland.Founded in 1990, the center is located at the historic 300-year-old, 232-acre (0.94 km 2) Mt. Pleasant Farm, [1] and also maintains an additional nature center at the nearby Belmont Manor.
Magnolia Plantation (Knoxville, Maryland) Marshalee (Elkridge, Maryland) Mattawoman (plantation) The Meadows (Owings Mills, Maryland) Melford (Mitchellville, Maryland) Middle Plantation (Davidsonville, Maryland) Mount Dillon
St. Inigoes, sometimes called St. Inigoes Shores, is a small, rural, unincorporated farming, fishing and crabbing community at the southern end of St. Mary's County in the U.S. state of Maryland that is undergoing a transition to small residential subdevelopment plots.
Southern Maryland, also referred to as SoMD, is a geographical, cultural and historic region in Maryland composed of the state's southernmost counties on the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. According to the state of Maryland, the region includes all of Calvert , Charles , and St. Mary's counties and the southern portions of Anne Arundel ...
The Bennett-Kelly Farm is an historic home and farm complex located at Sykesville, Carroll County, Maryland, United States.The complex consists of a stone and frame house, a stone mounting block, a stone smokehouse, a frame bank barn, a frame wagon shed, a frame chicken house, a concrete block dairy or tool shed, and a stone spring house.
Southern States Cooperative is an American farmer-owned agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in the Richmond, Virginia area. Southern States Cooperative supplies small, medium, and large commercial farmers with livestock and animal feed, pasture seed, vegetable seed, farm fertilizers, farm supplies, bulk fuel, and crop services, including information and products to grow better crops.