Grow it, Eat it
Photo credit: University of Maryland
The Grow It, Eat It campaign in Maryland is up and running.
The Grow It Eat It campaign is a joint venture between the Maryland Master Gardener program and the Home and Garden Information Center at the University of Maryland to address the growing need of Marylanders to learn how to start and maintain successful food gardens.
The goal of the program is 1 million Marylanders producing their own healthy, affordable food.
Visit the campaign's Web site, and click onto Jon Traunfeld's blog, which is also up and going. Jon is as the Director of the Home and Garden Information Center and State Master Gardener Coordinator for University of Maryland Extension.
But he has also been gardening for 30 years. He has been a commercial vegetable grower and has started 10 home gardens, including a front yard tomato patch in Nashville and a cozy garden next to a dumpster in Baltimore.
In two recent blog posts, Jon writes about the glories of asparagus and garlic!
If you are new to vegetable gardening, you will find plenty of help on the Web site and Jon's blog.
