The Maryland Dairy Shrine, Maryland Holstein Affiliation and Maryland Dairy Enterprise Affiliation invite Maryland dairy farmers and their househpreviouss to a Househprevious Dairy Picnic from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 17  On the Howard County Dwelling Farm Heritage Museum (12985 Frederick Road, West Friendship), throughout from the Howard County Truthfulgrounds. The three groups will current youth scholarship and doc e-book awards and acinformation excellent breeders, Dairies of Distinction and a Maryland Dairy Shrine inductee. There May even be a silent and stay public sale of particular dairy memorabilia. Convey chairs and public sale gadgets, Do You’d like to need. Self-guided excursions of the museum grounds and future house of the Maryland Dairy Shrine are additionally to be featured. Value is $15 per particular person and $7 For youngsters beneath the age of 8, which Consists of a boxed lunch. Ship identify And get In contact with information Collectively with look at made to the Maryland Dairy Enterprise Affiliation, 23301 Mount Ephraim Road, Dickerson, MD 20842. You’d possibly additionally e-mail [email protected]. Reservations are due by July 6.

The Frederick County Farm Bureau picnic Shall be held July 21 at Mount Tabor Park in Rocky Ridge, kicking off with the Little Farmer and Farmerette contest at 5 p.m., scholarship reveals at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. This yr, the meal Shall be catered and served And also you Want to RSVP by July 12 to Audrey Wolfe at 301-788-4958 or [email protected].

Nominations for an appointment to the Catoctin Soil Consevation District Board of Supervisors are being accepted by the Maryland State Soil Conservation Committee. The appointment Shall be for a time period To expire July 29, 2026, And may fill the expired time period of Rene Grossnickle. Nominations Ought to be despatched to: State Soil Conservation Committee, Division of Agriculture, 50 Harry S. Truman Parkway, Room 306, Annapolis, MD 21401. A supervisor Have to be a refacetnt of the district, with boundaries being the Catoctin Creek watershed, and have a information of and a honest curiosity in right land use and the conservation of soil, water and associated pure assets. Nomination types Can be found On the Catoctin Soil Conservation District Office, 92 Thomas Johnson Drive, Suite 230, Frederick or on-line at www.mda.maryland.gov. 

Purposes Shall be accepted by way of July 31 for Frederick County Authorities’s new Agriculture Innovation Grants. Farmers may apply for aggressive grants of $5,000 or extra To assist increase or variety their Industry operations. To be eligible, candidates Have to be a crop or staystock producer, A worth-added producer, an agricultural cooperative, a seafood processor, or a primary or secondary timber merchandise processor. Funds Might Even be used for evaluation and enchancment, manufacturing constructings, primary fixtures, or processing amenities. Information on This method, together with The biggest Technique To use, Is out there on-line at www.DiscoverFrederickMd.com or by calling 240-285-2795.

A $5,000 scholarship Shall be provided to a Maryland youth who has/had a dairy enterprise (any breed) and is enrolled in a 4-yr school of agriculture program. This scholarship is being made out there by Gene Iager, a Maryland dairy and grain farmer and Industryman, and Is out there to second-semester freshmen by way of Getting into seniors. The equipment Shall be out there on the Maryland Holstein Affiliation internet website at https://marylandholstein.com and is due no later than July 15.

Any Maryland dairy youth who has carried the dairy enterprise by way of 4-H, FFA or a breed group and is enrolled in a 4-yr school, submit-secondary school or commerce school is eligible To use for the Marlin K. Hoff Scholarship sponsored by the Maryland State Truthful. The $2,000 scholarship Is out there to incoming freshman by way of Getting into seniors. The scholarship Shall be awarded Through the Maryland Holstein Futurity on Sept. 2. The equipment is due July 20 and Is out there on-line On the Maryland State Truthful internet website, www.marylandstatefair.com.

Please Adjust to market ideas when visiting, together with sporting of facial masks.

Boonsboro Farmers Market. Shafer Park Annex, Potomac Road, subsequent to the police station, Boonsboro, 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesdays, by way of Oct. 5. 301-471-9816 or Facee-book.

Brunswick Main Road Farmers Market, Martins’ Creek Municipal Parking lot, Potomac Road at First Avenue, Brunswick. Second and final Friday of the month, 4 to 7 p.m. by way of Sept. 24. www.facee-book.com/bmsfarmersmarket. up So far 040921

Carroll County Farmers Market. Carroll County Agriculture Center, 700 Agriculture Drive, Westminster. Summer time market hours are 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. by way of Dec. 18. July 10, Christmas in July. 410-848-7748 or www.carrollcountyfarmersmarket.com.

Emmitsburg Farmers Market. 302 S. Seton Ave., Emmitsburg. 3 To six:30 p.m. Fridays, by way of Sept. 24. Contact Amy Naill at 301-600-6303 or [email protected].

Everedy Sq. and Shab Row Farmers Market, 113 N. East St., Frederick. 3 To six p.m. Thursdays by way of Sept. 30. A second Frederick Farmers Market location. [email protected]

Area Current Farmers Market. Frederick Truthfulgrounds, Lot A, on the Franklin Road facet of the Frederick Truthfulgrounds. Open 9 a.m. to 1 p.m Saturdays, by way of Nov. 20, rain or shine, besides Truthful Week, Sept. 18 and 25. www.fieldfreshfarmersmarket.com.

Frederick Metropolis Market. Parking lot of the previous Carmack-Jay’s constructing, 331 N. Market St., Frederick. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sundays by way of Nov. 21. www.frederickcitymarket.com.

Frederick Farmers Market. 1215 W. Patrick St., Frederick. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays, by way of Nov. 20. Accepts Maryland Market Money. www.frederickfarmersmarket.com. up So far 032221.

Jefferson Farmers Market, Jefferson Ruritan, 4603 Lander Road, Jefferson, 4 To six p.m. Wednesdays, rain or shine, by way of Sept. 8. 301-473-8330 or the Facee-book Website.

Key Metropolis Meals & Farm Market, William Talley Rec Center, 121 N. Bentz St., Frederick. Meals vans and regionally-sourced items. 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Fridays, by way of Sept. 3.

Lake Linganore Farmers and Artisans Market, 6718 Cpreviousstream Drive, New Market, 4 to 7 p.m. Thursdays by way of Aug. 12. www.lakelinganore.org.

Meritus Well being Farmers Market — infacet the Robinwood Expert Center Atrium, 11110 Medical Campus Road, Hagerstown. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesdays with produce from native farmers and distributors; masks required at this indoor event. www.meritushealth.com.

Centertown Farmers Market. Parking lot of Christ Reformed Church, 12 S. Church St., Centertown. Thursdays 4 to 7 p.m. by way of mid-October. www.middletownmdfarmersmarket.com or 301-524-1035.

Mount Ethereal Main Road Farmers’ Market. 3 N. Main St., behind the Historic Mount Ethereal Practice Station, 3 N. Main St., Mount Ethereal. 3 to 7 p.m. Wednesdays by way of September. www.mountairyprimarystreetfarmersmarket.org.

Myersville Farmers Outdoors Market. Municipal Parking lot subsequent to Myersville Metropolis Hall/Volunteer Hearth Agency at 301 Main St., Myersville. 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays by way of Oct. 30. 301-524-1035 or www.myersvillefarmersmarket.com.

Smithsburg Farmers Market (new). Located On the carnival grounds behind The hearth department, 22 N. Main St., Smithsburg; 4-7 p.m. final Monday of the month: July 26, Aug. 30, Sept. 27. @smithsburgmdtownfarmersmarket on Facee-book.

Urbana Library Farmers Market. Urbana Regional Library, 9020 Amelung St., Urbana. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays. Updates on Facee-book. 

Worman’s Mill Markets & Music. Worman’s Mill, 2470 Service provider Circle, Frederick. 5 To eight p.m. Fridays by way of Sept. 24. 240-285-9263 or www.wormansmillvillage.com.

YMCA of Frederick County Farmers Market. 1000 N. Market St., Frederick. 3:30 To six:30 p.m. Tuesdays by way of Oct. 26. www.frederickymca.org.