I add to and never remove – we have supported local businesses for many years now. I add them as anyone lets us know who needs a vote of recognition in our Southern Maryland home.
SMADC has everything you can want This whole paragraph is from their great facebook page – you must follow them there also and then you will hear about everything in southern Maryland first!
Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission
Enjoy the Best of Southern Maryland Farms This Holiday Season!
From trees to wreathes, to festive foods, unique gifts and farm hosted fun … Southern Maryland farms have you covered!
Looking for unique gifts, holiday décor, fresh farm foods and fun events to celebrate the season? Southern Maryland’s farms and producers have you covered! Browse the online 2023 Holiday Farm Guide to connect with farms and producers in Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Prince George’s, and St. Mary’s counties, plus regional wineries, breweries and distilleries, seafood producers, restaurants, stores and regional winter farmers markets offering Southern Maryland raised and made products for the holiday season and throughout the winter months.
The 2023 Southern Maryland Holiday Farm Guide is available now to view on the SMADC website ‘Get our Guides’ page at SMADC.com. Look for the guide promotional cards at Southern Maryland regional libraries, and participating farms, farmers markets and businesses
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online booklet of SMADC is here
if that link did not work then go to their Facebook page and see the many things to do and find in Southern maryland. And, follow the, there.
https://www.facebook.com/SMADC.MD
Don’t forget this last summer’s people just add some new!
https://www.buylocalchallenge.com/
The Southern Maryland best of the best!
Monnett Farms
https://www.monnettfarms.com/?fbclid=IwAR3M01JH0x1GUTNxdnbSFKDqsaDo8y1QVejyvJNmRSyxffAdRR8sW9IckTI
and also on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/monnettfarms/?ref=br_rs
Uncle D’s Grill
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MEZEH – I never have to cook again
Southern Maryland’s countryside beauty is maintained by the best tree experts in the region. Tri-County Tree will take care of your property needs for normal maintenance and emergency storm needs. Brad Dowell and crew are the best and like many local businesses are family owned and operated. Families with deep roots and tall and wonderful trees through Calvert, St. Mary’s, and Charles counties and more whose traditions in southern Maryland go back generations, with generations welcoming new families like ours into southern Maryland living.
http://www.tctreemd.com/
Living in the south we all need to maintain our properties with the best expert professionals – Bo McKenny and his crew — Steve and Joey and all the folks will make your septic worries go away. They are a full service company and you can call them for your needs today. 
(410) 257-4444 I was happy to put my home in their hands and they did not disappoint.
Providing septic installation, repairs to drain fields, septic pumping and certifications.
J & J Portable Toilet & Septic Services Inc – Multiple years of high ratings. Great people with professional work.
For all things plumbing – Paul Hayden Plumbing has the expertise and the professional people to take care or the needs of ytour home or business. Not only have they helped us in our home but more than once I have heard our Southern Maryland neighbors say good things about the company.
Thank you!
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Time and again great work and professional people with Thomas Miller Electric. They also have multiple neighbors who praise their work and now us also. They coordinated with the other great septic contractor, J&J, and made our lives smooth and uninterrupted. Great work!
http://www.tfmillerinc.com/
Everything good and wholesome right at your fingertips in Calvert County.
Calvert County Farmer’s Market Association has organized to have online ordering for families and no contact pickup. If you do not have this where you live then share this idea with your local Farmer’s Association.
They made it very easy to order and we can no-contact pickup at the Prince Frederick location or get added delivery.
I do not know what to make of the links – but see the location above and go to the fruits, vegetables, flowers, cakes, syrups – the abundance of Calvert County and southern Maryland.
This is a Facebook page for the association, but their link goes to a general county page.
https://www.facebook.com/CalvertCountyFarmersMarketAssociation/
THIS LINK IS DOWN – updating today April 20th by evening we hope.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScm5rXupgkSZudidt26KPaqErQvUp1JBVk6QKVJKypXPpFoTw/viewform
In-between – main page: https://calvertag.com/
Bohemia Apiary is another wonderful Maryland local business on the Eastern Shore. They do sell on line so you do not have to travel the Bay Bridge to get to their store, you have it right in hand.
Sweet Sue’s Bakery in North Beach is another of our small businesses that found a way to stay open through the pandemic to help us all with wonderful things to eat, including by setting up online orders.
Cake, Cake and Cupcakes and for good measure – Cake!
Hopefully this is still in effect:
Online orders can be placed with the “Shop Now” button on our Facebook page or through our website www.sweetsuesbakeshop.com
Call us at 410-286-8041. We can process payment for gift cards over the phone if you are looking to support us in that manner.
Megan and Jon – owners”
https://www.facebook.com/Sweetsuesbakery/
ORIGINAL November 2018 SBS POST:
All know I have been keen on DNA for genealogy and anthropology for eons now, and most of my blogs are about people living and dead and their DNA, their histories and herstories and lives – which include food and music.
There are stories, studies and articles, and archaeology and research to back them up, over which haplogroup marks the first farmers and which were the hunter gatherers. And there is much speculation about exactly when, why and how these groups emerged.
What led man and woman to master or mistress agriculture and create permanent communities? Maybe, like me, they had too much stuff to move. But they still had to eat, so our beloved farmers stayed with us collectors to found the first base camps!
But whatever made folks settle down, settle down they did. And the harvest time did come, first in nature but now through the toil of men and women who have their farms, their small businesses and services.
The pre-holiday dinner is the slow cooker’s dream. Clean, peel, do some slicing and crumbling; then add it all in the cooker and let it begin. I coat the bottom of the slow cooker with extra virgin olive oil. I add butternut squash in 4 pieces, carrot strips, and whole small (or cut) young turnips, and the whole green tomatoes. I like to add a package of ground beef crumbled onto my stews and fricassees and let the meat flavor the vegetables. I add a couple of cups of water, which will make stock. Then I add the London Broil on top and cook on extra low for 4-6 hours until the vegetables are done. All the vegetables can be placed on a dish for serving.
I then put the London Broil in a baking dish. I make sure I have enough stock by adding more water to the liquid in the slow cooker. I spoon the ground beef onto the top of the Broil. This will help hold the stock on top of the meat. I cover the pan tightly with aluminum foil and cook the London Broil in the oven for about 3 plus hours at 325 degrees. I turn it one time halfway through. I put the beef crumbles back on top and spoon the stock over the top. I add more water if needed.
With the beef stock and about 1/3 of the crumbled beef, I add a pound of dried beans. The beans should be rinsed and boiled in water for 5 minutes. Allow them to cool and drain the water off. Then add the beans to the meat stock and slow cook until tender, adding more water as and if needed.
The produce came from different farms; I must ask someone and add the names 🙂 The London Broil and “about” a pound, more or less, 🙂 of ground beef, clearly came from Battle Creek Beef. But I got everything at Chesapeake’s Bounty here in Southern Maryland, some things at the North Beach location and some from the St. Leonard location
Support your local from Fall and Christmas 2022 – many still relevant links and helps and since that is a soon season !!! 🙂
Cherie Lynn's Herstory 