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MPT Celebrates a Decade of Telling Stories about Maryland’s Farming Industry

March 7, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Maryland Public Television’s Maryland Farm & Harvest will celebrate its 10th anniversary on Tuesday, Mar. 7, at 7 p.m. with a special season-ending retrospective episode. The popular weekly series has taken viewers on a journey across the “Free State” over the course of 127 episodes, telling stories about the farms, people and technology required to sustain and grow agriculture in Maryland, the state’s number one commercial industry. More than 15 million viewers have watched Maryland Farm & Harvest on MPT since its fall 2013 debut. The series has traveled to more than 400 farms, fisheries, wineries and other agriculture-related locations, covering every Maryland county as well as Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

During the Mar. 7 episode, Emmy Award-winning series host Joanne Clendining shares her fondest memories and favorite farm locations from the past decade. Clendining also leads a roundtable discussion featuring “The Local Buy” segment host Al Spoler and a group of the series’ producers and its primary videographer. Plus, viewers will get a behind-the-scenes look at how the show is made.

The season finale was filmed at Westminster’s Carroll County Farm Museum and features an appearance by Scott D. Holniker, the museum’s retired curator and son of the late Peggy and Kenneth Holniker, founders of Beth Shalom Congregation, the first synagogue in Carroll County. Holniker provides the show with what it calls a “Thingamajig” — often an antique and obscure tool used on farms during a bygone era.

The Maryland Department of Agriculture is MPT’s co-production partner for Maryland Farm & Harvest, which airs on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. on MPT-HD and online at mpt.org/livestream. Encore broadcasts are available on MPT-HD Thursdays at 11 p.m. and Sundays at 6 a.m. Each episode also airs on MPT2/Create® on Fridays at 7:30 p.m.

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  • Date: March 7, 2023
  • Time:
    7:00 pm - 7:30 pm