Plenty
autumn Harvest Season • 2023
FEATURES
4 Our Unfolding Food Emergency Now is the time to create more opportunities in the Ag Reserve for robust food production by members of the climate coalition
12 Legacy Family Farming Alive and Well Three generations of Butlers reflect the evolution of family farming by melane kinney hoffman
18 Little White Black Churches by the Sides of Our Roads Preservation of tangible history takes many forms by paul tukey
22 Riverworks Art Center : Create It and They Will Come
by wib middleton
27 Food Is Medicine Addressing healthy food access disparities in today ’ s food system by jennifer freeman
43 Building Community Around Mid-Atlantic Grains
by jillian o ’ donohoe
DEPARTMENTS
9 Wild Things Bringing Home the Bees
by catie deluca
32 From the Ground Up 61 Vineyard : Where Great Wine and Family Vibe Intertwine
by wib middleton
36 Eye for Beauty Suspended Landscapes
by sarah hood salomon
39 Food for Thought Encouraging Children ’ s Role in the Miracle of Growing Food
by alejandro lopez
45 Recipe Box Any Kind of Flour Brownies
by jazmyne ortiz
47 Out in Nature Volunteering To Be Up a Creek
by merikay smith publisher i managing editor & design Jane Perini publisher i staff writer & photography Wib Middleton
PLENTY , Autumn Harvest Issue 2023 . Plenty is published three times a year by Thunder Mountain Publishing LLC . It is distributed free of charge in many Montgomery County , MD locations as well as locations in Frederick . © 2023 by Thunder Mountain Publishing LLC . All rights reserved . Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited . • www . plenty-agmag . com • 301.527.2295