FAB Annual Report 2021.

Our farm and community garden members have accomplished so much this past year. We're grateful to work for them and to be growing new farmers as well as food with our Black Butterfly Urban Farmer Academy program and farm at Farring-Baybrook Park. Click the image to read and enjoy, and let us know what you think! -- The FAB Team

Sofia Whiting Memorial Scholarship Fund

Sofia Whiting was a young person in the Farm Alliance family whose love of urban farming brought her close to many of our member farms. Please consider giving as generously as you can as we launch this scholarship to honor her memory.

The Farm Alliance of Baltimore will award up to 3 scholarships of $1000 each to college-bound scholars from the Baltimore area who have demonstrated a love of urban farming and community gardening.

DONATE TO THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND HERE

Watch this space for application information, details on eligibility, and deadlines for the spring 2022 season.

FAB + ROSS GAY celebration at the Ivy Bookshop this Sun.

Sunday October 10th, 12-5pm, 5928 Falls Rd, Baltimore, MD 21209
The Ivy Bookshop is having a small family-friendly outdoor festival celebrating Ross Gay's The Book of Delights & the Ivy's 20 year-birthday, and 1-year anniversary at its new location. More information here

Farm Alliance will be doing a pop up market, assisting with a native planting in the bookshop gardens and spreading the word about all of the amazing farms & gardens.

FAB members in the news!

City of Refuge Victory Garden was profiled in a CBS Baltimore segment earlier this summer (that's Farmer Clayton and Farmer Jen of Victory Garden above): https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2021/06/12/city-of-refuge-victory-garden-uplifts-south-baltimore-community-with-fresh-produce/

Farmer Atiya Wells and Backyard Basecamp/BLISS Meadows were featured in the Need to Know listings on Ozy Media (scroll down to see the mention): https://www.ozy.com/need-to-know/the-wonderful-world-of-wellness/442750/

Farmer Chippy and the Plantation Park Heights were featured in the Washington Post (and the same article ran in the Sun): https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/baltimores-first-agrihood-heralded-for-its-innovation/2021/09/27/c3c59d42-1fc5-11ec-8200-5e3fd4c49f5e_story.html

Also from earlier in the summer, the Farm Alliance's participation in the Safe Urban Harvests study out of Johns Hopkins was highlighted in this article from the Bloomberg School of Public Health: https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/06/08/livable-future-study-urban-farms-metals/