It Takes a Region

In an age of agricultural mergers and urban hyper-growth, the farmers of the 17 member farms of the Baltimore Farm Alliance are scaling down instead of up. Building healthy soils through time-tested methods, we steward acreage ranging from less than ⅛  acre to a maximum of 8 acres. We also resist the idea that our farms exist to entice developers. Coexisting with our neighborhoods, each farm has put down roots, developing individual strategies to get food into the hands of neighbors. Even as we all work for a just transition, we take diverse approaches to farming: panelists’ farms range from high-tunnel intensive, to food forest building, to open-field organic vegetable operations.