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Happy August!

In this months newsletter:
Upcoming Events
On-Farm Field Days
Field Notes Dinner Series Returns
Community Corner
From the Field
Black Butterfly Bulletin

Here at the Farm Alliance we've been busy in the field soaking in the summer sun, working hard and preparing for lots of upcoming events. We extend a heartfelt invitation for you to join us in these upcoming gatherings!
Pictured above is Nazirahk Amen and attendees at our last field day at Purple Mountain Farm.

Upcoming Events
Crab Feast, September 9th 3-7pm at the Black Butterfly Farm
The Farm Alliance will be teaming up with Nosreme Baltimore Inc, an up and coming non-profit that aims to increase access to healthy food and vibrant art in neglected Baltimore neighborhoods. Together, we will host an epic crab feast for our local community in Brooklyn. The event will take place at the Farm Alliance’s Black Butterfly Teaching Farm located at 3901 West Bay Avenue and will support Nosreme’s mission to build an artist’s residence and communal dining restaurant in Baltimore.
Crab Feast Tickets Here

The Smell of Money Movie Screening, September 17th 4-8pm
Join The Farm Alliance of Baltimore at Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School for a film screening of Shawn Bannon's The Smell of Money.

This film follows Elsie Herring and her North Carolina community as they fight the world's largest pork corporation; they fight for their freedom to enjoy fresh air, clean water, and a life without the stench of manure. See the trailer for the film here. After the film screening, enjoy an audience Q&A with Jamie Berger, who helped write and produce the film.

Movie Screening Tickets Here

On-Farm Field Days
We're super excited to visit our friends Kitchen Girl Farm next week! Kitchen Girl Farm is a small-scale, diversified farm growing sustainable produce and pastured eggs in Parkton, MD. Join us for a tour of the farm and learn more about their regenerative agriculture practices and how they raise chickens and grow a variety of vegetables on about 2.5 acres for their CSA, restaurants and wholesale customers.
We've got a full line up of these events. Tickets are free for Farm Alliance Members, ECO City & Future Harvest Trainees and just $15 for the public. 

Join us in the field as we learn together at these on-farm events hosted by local experts.

Get your tickets today!
see all upcoming events & get tickets here

Field Notes Dinner and Dialogue Series Returns!
Mark your calendars, our Field Notes Dinner & Dialogue Series returns this Fall and we've got some wonderful events cooking up for you.

For Field Notes 3
Date: Sunday, October 1
Time: 4-9PM
Location: TBA
Theme: Sugar (a rum tasting)
Featured Chef and Speaker: Damian Mosley of Blacksauce Kitchen

For Field Notes 4
Date: Sunday, November 5
Time: 4-9PM
Location: Hex Superette
Theme: Fermented Foods & Pockles
Honored Ancestor: Abbie Fisher
Featured Speaker: Deb Freeman
Featured Chef: Cieara Adams

Stay tuned..more details and tickets coming soon!

Community Corner
Job Opportunities
City Farms Coordinator, Department of Rec and Parks
Looking for quality produce grown right in your neighborhood?
Check out this list of Farm Alliance Members Farm Stands & Markets
 

From the Field
We had a blast at our second annual Community Day at the Black Butterfly Farm! It was wonderful to spend the day with our neighbors, we colored, held sack races and made bouquets together. Our team gave farm tours and guests were even able to dig their own potatoes!
Crystal Forman of Holistic Wellness & Health led a cooking demo using freshly harvested eggplant, tomatoes and summer squash from the farm and we were joined by our neighbors Filbert Street Garden and twinkie the goat. By the end of the day we had distributed around 400 pounds of produce to over 60 guests!

Black Butterfly Bulletin

Our Farm team is really seeing the fruits of all their hard work at The Black Butterfly Farm, that is to say the harvests have been bountiful! If you look closely you can spot Farmer Andy in the dense field of Okra in the picture above. Each week we're bringing in more crops than the last and on top of it all, we've begun preparing for fall at the farm! We look forward to the cooler days ahead, but it's sure been a joy to have such a bounty to share with our customers, staff and neighbors!
Happy Summer! See you soon!
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