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Plenty
spring sowing season • 2020
FEATURES
5 The Ag Reserve Turns 40
Protecting our working agricultural landscape
by royce hanson
7 Farm School
ph o
t o b y jane gam b le
DEPARTMENTS
children about food and the natural world 18 Roam the Reserve
Parks, History and Fun in
Brookeville and Sandy Spring
by butler montesorri faculty by sarah rogers
11 Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary 24 An Eye for Beauty
Welcome to a land of creature comforts Into the Wild with Jane Gamble
How an organic student-run farm teaches
by wib middleton
30 From the Ground Up
15 Madison Fields
Working and growing together
by steve robinson
& taylor polito
Gene Kingsbury: A Fifth
Generation Farmer
by wib middleton
21 For the Love of Horses 33 Open Space
by jane thiery Mission Impossumble
27 Rebuilding Our Soil by pamela boe
Caring for the soil like our life depends on it 37 Sowing Seeds
by amanda cather If Heaven Were a Place on Earth
Plus: CSAs in the Reserve
40 Susanna Farm
An oasis to inspire the artist in you by ryan kalivretenos
by wib middleton 44 Food for Thought
46 Bretton Woods Adventure Camp Going Local Makes Good Sense
Nonstop fun in nature’s classroom
by bart yablonsky
49 Shop the Reserve
publisher i managing editor & design
Jane Perini
Wib Middleton
publisher i staff writer & photographer
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