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PLENTY SUMMER GROWING SEASON • 2019 FEATURES 4 Bold Vision, Bountiful Treasure Montgomery County’s Agricultural Reserve by royce hanson DEPARTMENTS 7 Slow Living Going against the grain of convenience by mary kingsley 18 Farm, Fork & Flavor A History of Stewardship 12 Rocklands Farm Winery by claudia kousoulas Coming home to your senses 26 An Eye for Beauty by wib middleton Ambling Down a Country Road 20 Community Supported Agriculture Is a Win-Win for Everyone by amanda cather by martin radigan 28 Artist Spotlight A Farmer’s Fabric of Inspiration 33 A Story of Bees by wib middleton Cross-Pollinating History and Nature 36 Rustic Roads & Waterways by sarah rogers Every Road Has a Story 40 Calleva by ginny barnes Empowerment in the Great Outdoors 43 Young Voices 45 Giving Trees Farm-Based Education Accelerating re-forestation in the Ag Reserve by sophia maravell by caroline taylor 48 Open Space cover photo : gene kingsbury Where the Wild Things Are by susan petro publisher i managing editor i design Jane Perini Wib Middleton publisher i writing i staff photographer PLENTY, Summer Growing Issue 2019. PLENTY is published three times a year by Thunder Mountain Design, 14100 Berryville Rd, Germantown, MD 20874. It is distributed free of charge in many Montgomery County, MD locations. © 2019 by Thunder Mountain Design. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. • plenty-agmag.com • 301.527.2295