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HERE AT THE FARM, THE OLD BARN INTO SPACE FOR GUESTS TO SIT AND COMING UP, UNINVITED GUESTS IN HIS FIELDS.

BUT FIRST, YOU PROBABLY KNOW BUT DID YOU KNOW THERE ARE Joanne: THIS NEXT FARM OF MULTI-COLORED EGGS ONE PACKAGE AT A TIME.

* IT'S THE FIRST DAY OUT FOR THESE LITTLE CHICKS AT DEER AND THEY'RE IN FOR QUITE WITHIN 72 HOURS, TO THEIR HOMES IN CHICKEN COOPS Allison Rostad: WE'VE SHIPPED AS FAR AS ALASKA AND WE ALSO HAVE PEOPLE TO PICK UP AS WELL.

Joanne: BUT THESE CHICKS AREN'T THE FREDERICK COUNTY FARM FIRST, FARMERS AND CHICKEN AND JOSH STEWART NEED TO PREPARE ALISON VACCINATES THE BIRDS TO Alison: SO, IN THE UNITED STATES THAT IS WE MAINTAIN THAT BY VACCINATING BUT THEN...ALSO, EVERY THREE MONTHS TO MAKE THE VACCINATION I'M GIVING TODAY AND IT'S LACED WITH NEW CASTLE Joanne: NEXT, JOSH DIPS TO TEACH THEM HOW TO DRINK.

Alison: OBVIOUSLY, THEY'VE NOT HAD WATER.

NOW, IF I WERE TO JUST PUT THEM THEY WOULD SLOWLY FIGURE IT BUT THE SOONER YOU CAN THE QUICKER THEY ARE TO LEARN.

SO THEN, AND FIGURE THAT OUT AS WELL.

[CHICKENS CLUCKING] Joanne: OF COURSE, THERE WERE ROOSTERS AND HENS.

Josh Stewart: THEY'RE ALL HERITAGE.

SO, THESE ARE THE BREEDS THAT BACK IN THE '50s AND '60s.

THESE WERE MORE LIKE WHERE THEY WERE A DUAL PURPOSE YOU WOULD GROW THEM FOR YOUR BUTCHER THE MALES FOR YOUR MEAT.

Joanne: WHILE, IT'S HARD TO RAISING BACKYARD CHICKENS AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Josh: I THINK, IT'S SOMETHING ARE ABLE TO DO TOGETHER.

THEY CAN COME HOME FROM AND THERE'S CHICKENS AND FEED AND THEY CAN AND YOU HAVE PARENTS THEIR CHILDREN INTO THE PROCESS.

IT'S REWARDING TO SHOW THEIR TAKING CARE OF A LIVE ANIMAL.

Joanne: AND THERE'S A SPECIAL DEER RUN'S CHICKENS, EACH BREED Josh: OUR CUSTOMERS ARE THOSE THAT WANT RAINBOW EGGS, OR BROWN EGGS.

A LOT OF OUR CUSTOMERS ARE WE ALSO HAVE SOME SMALLER THAT HAVE PURCHASED FROM US, JUST A HIGH QUALITY, THAT ADDS LOTS OF COLOR Joanne: THE AMERICANA BREED THE DELAWARE'S LAY THE COPPER MARAN'S LAY AND SO DO THE WELSUMMER'S, TERRACOTTA EGGS THAT SOMETIMES AND LAST IS THE OLIVE EGGER, GREENISH BROWN EGGS.

AFTER THESE EGGS ARE SET, IN THE INCUBATOR AND HATCHER WHILE, THEY'RE STILL RELATIVE NEWCOMERS Joanne: JOSH'S PARENTS AND THE FAMILY STARTED AND GROWING CROPS FOR FEED.

THEN...IN 2017, TO BUY A CHICKEN BREEDING Josh: AT THE TIME, YOU KNOW, "WOULD YOU LIKE TO WOULD YOU WANT TO BUY AND WE DECIDED THAT, FOR KEEPING THE FARM Alison: AND SO, AND I WAS LIKE, I COULD DO IT."

AND THE NEXT DAY, [CHUCKLES] AND I BECAME I DIDN'T REALLY KNOW ANYTHING BUT NOW I KNOW EVERYTHING Joanne: AND ALISON AND JOSH GET WITH THEIR CUSTOMERS THROUGH WHICH THEY WILL SAFELY SEND Alison: SO TODAY, THESE ONES MISSOURI, NEBRASKA, Joanne: AS ALISON PACKS UP SHE MAKES SURE THEIR TRIP IS Alison: WE'LL PUT A HEAT PACK ON THE THEN, THE EXCELSIOR PAD, SHAVED WOOD FOR BEDDING.

THAT WAY THEY DON'T SLIP AS AND THEN, IT'S JUST ELECTROLYTE IN GEL HYDRATED UNTIL THEY GET TO * AND THEN, THE CHICKS.

* Joanne: THEN, WITHIN THREE DAYS, THRILLED TO GET THESE FLUFFY THE COLORFUL EGGS THEY LAY TOO.

* RAISING BACKYARD CHICKENS BUT THEY CAN OCCASIONALLY SPREAD VISIT MPT.ORG/FARM THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND YOUR FAMILY HEALTHY.

AND DID YOU KNOW?

CHICKENS RAISED FOR CHICKENS RAISED FOR MEAT * ALL RIGHT.

IT'S TIME TO TEST YOUR Joanne: HERE IS DO YOU THINK YOU WELL, HERE'S A HINT.

IT'S NOT AN ANTIQUE STAY TUNED AND WE'LL HAVE THE FOR A FARMER, FEW THINGS ARE A BEAUTIFUL SUNSET AFTER AND IT'S NICE WHEN THEY HAVE WE ASKED FARMERS TO SEND THEIR TO OUR FACEBOOK PAGE.

ENJOY.

* WHETHER, IT'S A SUNSET FARMERS HAVE TO DEAL WITH THROWS THEIR WAY.

BUT OUT WEST IN GARRETT COUNTY, * THE SCENERY IN GARRETT THE MAJESTIC MOUNTAINS, AND DEEP CREEK LAKE VACATION DESTINATION.

BUT FOR THOSE WHO AREN'T LIVING AND WORKING IN MOUNTAIN A SPECIAL SET OF CHALLENGES, Richard Bernard: THIS IS A SMALL OUR LARGER DAMAGE WILL BE THEY'LL GO OUT IN THE CENTER OF BIGGER SPOTS, BUT THEY'LL ROLL THE SIZE OF A HOUSE.

Joanne: FIFTH GENERATION FARMER WITH THE BLACK BEARS OF HIS 525 ACRE FARM IS SURROUNDED THEY'RE SITUATED RIGHT UP THE TALL CORNFIELDS ARE FOR THE BEARS.

HUNT VALLEY FARM IS A PEACEFUL Richard: ON HOT DAYS, THEY'LL THE WIND BLOWS THROUGH IT, AND AND THEY'VE GOT A GREAT Joanne: AS FAR AS THE BEARS IT'S FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED, HAVE TO ACT QUICK.

THE PRESSURE TO SALVAGE AND THE FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE IS Richard: THE MAIN REASON WE PUT OUT OF THE FIELD AS FAST I WOULD HATE TO SAY IF WE LEFT THE GRAIN OUT THERE.

Joanne: ON AVERAGE, FIVE TO $10,000 A YEAR, TO HIS CROPS.

THE BEARS ARE A THREAT WILD DEER PREFER THE SOYBEANS.

Richard: THIS IS ONE AND THE BEAR DON'T SEEM TO THAT'S ONE OF THE GOOD THINGS.

THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS BUT THE DEER HIT HIM Joanne: FOR THE LONGEST TIME, TO GROW SOYBEANS.

THE GARRETT COUNTY GROWING BUT THESE DAYS, THERE ARE THE WESTERN MARYLAND CLIMATE.

NOW, DEER ARE THE CHALLENGE.

Richard: ANYWHERE YOU HAVE THEY'VE NIBBLED OFF THE LEAVES.

AND IF YOU LOOK OUT ACROSS YOU SEE THAT LIGHTER GREEN COLOR THEN YOU KNOW THAT THEY HAVE [COMBINE NOISE] Joanne: THE WILDLIFE ARE DISADVANTAGES, BUT RICHARD'S BY THINKING AHEAD.

HIS HAY TAKES LONGER TO DRY AND COLD WEATHER, IT HELPS DRY OUT THE HAY Richard: THIS HELPS IT.

IT HELPS THE AIR TO MOVE THROUGH IT'S UP IN THE AIR.

Joanne: AND FOR RICHARD, IS IMPORTANT.

IT'S HIS OTHER SOURCE OF INCOME.

Richard: WE MARKET THE HAY NORTHERN VIRGINIA, LAST YEAR, WE MADE 32,000 BALES ABOUT 3,000 OR 4,000 A YEAR.

AND WE CAN DO ALMOST THAT BUT MAYBE WE'RE LUCKY TO HAVE Joanne: RICHARD DOESN'T HAVE WITH ALL THE FARMING CHALLENGES ESPECIALLY THE BEARS.

IT MAY BE A SMALL CONSTELLATION, TO MEASURE AND VERIFY SO HE CAN BE COMPENSATED BY THE THAT'S WHEN RICHARD CALLS ON A BEAR EXPERT WITH THE MARYLAND Harry Spiker: WHAT WE'LL DO IS AND WE'LL LOOK AT HOW MANY ROWS FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, FOR THIS PARTICULAR HOLE, TO THE OTHER END.

IF WE START AT THE FAR END A THREE FOOT STEP AND IT TAKES SO WE'RE LOOKING AT 60 FEET OF AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO GIVE EIGHT ROWS ACROSS, THEN WE'LL NOW, WE'LL DO THAT IN EVERY HOLE THIS ISN'T THE ONLY HOLE.

Joanne: DESPITE ALL HE SAYS, "HE'LL CONTINUE TO DO Richard: YOU GROW UP WITH THAT.

IT'S IN YOUR BLOOD.

FARMER'S FARM.

PREACHER'S PREACH.

I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT WE DO.

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AND DID YOU KNOW?

THE ANIMALS THAT CAUSE THE MOST ARE DEER, GEESE, AND GROUNDHOGS.

WHILE, CHICKENS HAVE LONG BEEN IT WASN'T UNTIL THE MID STARTED GROWING THEM SEE HOW CHICKEN HAS CHANGED * WHETHER...IT'S SAUTEED, AMERICANS HAVE A TASTE Joanne: THE AVERAGE AMERICAN OF THE BIRD IN 2014, BUT CHICKEN BACK IN 1925, ABOUT HALF A POUND A YEAR.

BUT THAT ALL CHANGED BEEF AND PORK WERE RATIONED LEAVING CIVILIANS WITH CHICKEN.

BY THE END OF THE WAR, THREE TIMES MORE CHICKEN THAN BUT THE POULTRY INDUSTRY WHAT IF THE END OF PORK CAUSED CHICKEN CONSUMPTION THAT'S WHERE THE 1948 CHICKEN Joanne: ITS GOAL WAS TO OR MEAT CHICKEN WITH A BROADER AND MEATIER THIGHS, THE CONTEST TOOK PLACE AND THE CHICKS WERE HATCHED THE WINNING BIRD FROM CALIFORNIA OF A TYPICAL CHICKEN AND THIS CHICKEN OF TOMORROW BY 1950, MOST BROILERS CAME UP OF THE CONTEST'S WINNERS IN THE SPIRIT OF THE CONTEST, TODAY'S CHICKENS GAIN WEIGHT IN 1950, A BROILER NEEDED TO REACH THREE POUNDS.

TODAY, IT ONLY TAKES A MONTH TWICE THAT SIZE.

DEMAND HAS GROWN TOO.

CHICKEN IS THE MOST IT LOOKS LIKE THE CHICKEN * COMING UP, AL SPOLER OF MARYLAND-MADE WINE BUT BEFORE WE GO TO AL, HERE AT INVERNESS BREWING ARE THE AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE LET'S LOOK AT SOME OTHERS AS WE * THROUGHOUT MARYLAND, OF DIFFERENT AGES, SIZES, HERE AT E. GRIFFITH AND SON THIS OLD TOBACCO BARN WAS BUNCHES OF TOBACCO LEAVES.

NOW, IT'S JUST USED FOR STORAGE, TOOK PART IN THE STATE'S IN THE YEAR 2000 AND STOPPED A STREAM CALLED CATTAIL BRANCH AT CATTAIL VIEW FARM BANK BARNS ARE BUILT INTO MULTIPLE FLOORS FOR LIVESTOCK, THEY WERE POPULAR IN MARYLAND STARTING IN THE LATE 1700s.

WE CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF AS WE FLEW OVER SHENANDOAH ONE OF THE MODERN STEEL BARNS ROBOTIC MILKING MACHINE.

SPEAKING OF STATE-OF-THE-ART, THEY INSTALLED A HUGE SOLAR THE VENTILATION, LIGHTING, INSIDE THEIR CHICKEN HOUSES.

EACH BARN CAN HOLD 36,000 BIRDS.

SO, THE NEXT TIME YOU GO PAST SEE IF YOU CAN IDENTIFY THE MANY ACROSS OUR STATE.

* IF YOU ENJOY WINE, AN INCREASING NUMBER OF WINERIES AL SPOLER LOOKS INTO ON THIS WEEK'S THE LOCAL BUY.

AL?

* Al Spoler: WHEN YOU THINK OF PLACES LIKE NAPA, CALIFORNIA COME TO MIND.

WHILE, MARYLAND ISN'T QUITE OUR REPUTATION FOR LOCALLY THANKS TO FAVORABLE OF THE BUY LOCAL MOVEMENT, IN OUR STATE HAS INCREASED FROM HERE IN KENT COUNTY, AND WINERY WHERE THE LAST OF NOW, SOMEWHERE BACK THERE THEY'RE BRINGING IN THE LAST OF YOU KNOW, ALL OVER MARYLAND, ARE POPPING UP LIKE CRAZY, ON THE EASTERN SHORE.

NOW, ALTHOUGH THE CROW FAMILY IT DOESN'T MEAN Judy Crow: INITIALLY, THE FARM THIS HAS GONE ON IT WAS A DAIRY FARM.

HE SOLD THE DAIRY HERD AND HE AND THEN, HE MET ME 13 YEARS AGO AND I WAS LIKE, AND HE SAID, "WELL, LET'S DO Al: AFTER ATTENDING SOME THE FARM'S NEW DIRECTION JUDY CROW AND HER HUSBAND ROY OF VIDAL BLANC AND AND CROW VINEYARD WAS BORN.

Judy: OUR SON BRANDON CAME BACK AND THE REST IS JUST HISTORY.

WE STARTED GROWING MORE GRAPES AND BUSY DAYS AROUND HERE.

Al: TODAY, CROW VINEYARD 12 AND A HALF ACRES OF GRAPES.

THEY ALSO RAISE BEEF CATTLE AND HAVE A BED, AND BREAKFAST, THESE ON-FARM EXPERIENCES FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. Judy: PEOPLE FROM METROPOLITAN FOR AN OPPORTUNITY TO COME AND NATURE, AND THAT'S HOW WE SORT OF MADE WE REALLY WANT YOU TO Al: GETTING MARYLAND WINE MUCH EASIER IN RECENT YEARS, THANKS TO THE MARYLAND WINERY PASSED IN 2010, TO SELL WINE ON SITE, VINTAGES IN PERSON Judy: ONCE, THE ACT THEN WE WERE ALLOWED TO PEOPLE COULD SIT DOWN NOW EXPERIENCE THE TASTING.

Al: WITH NEW REVENUE STREAMS, BEGAN LOOKING FOR WAYS TO Judy: SO THAT REALLY FORCED IMPROVE THE QUALITY AND WITH THE QUALITY OF QUALITY OF WINES, THE LOCAL ACCEPTANCE UP AND [MACHINE NOISE] Al: THAT'S CERTAINLY THE CASE THEIR WINES HAVE FOUND SUCCESS AND EVEN INTERNATIONAL THE WINERY HAS ALSO EARNED THE RESPECT OF THEIR LOCAL AND WINEMAKER MICHAEL ZOLLO "THAT'S AN IMPORTANT PART OF ON THE MAP."

Michael Zollo: WE JUST HAVE THE COMMUNITY IS SUPPORTING US WE'RE HAPPY.

WHEN THEY COME AND THEY TASTE AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT IS TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH.

IT'S TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE AWARE IN THIS AREA.

Al: IF YOU'D LIKE TO LEARN MORE MARYLAND WINES, MPT.ORG/FARM.

WE'LL GIVE YOU MAPS TO ALL AND THE WINE TRAILS THAT ARE THEY'RE A LOT OF FUN TO VISIT.

FOR THE LOCAL BUY, JOANNE?

* Joanne: THANKS, AL.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON MARYLAND MPT.ORG/FARM AND BE SURE TO ENJOY ALSO, DON'T FORGET TO FOLLOW US AND A LOOK BEHIND THE SCENES.

NOW, HOLD ON, REMEMBER OUR THINGAMAJIG?

DID YOU GUESS IT?

OUR HINT WAS THAT IT'S NOT THIS IS A "CORN SHELLER."

YOU PUT EARS OF CORN AND OUT COME THE KERNELS.

CONGRATULATIONS, JOIN US NEXT WEEK FOR ALONG WITH MORE STORIES ABOUT WHO FEED OUR STATE.

I'M JOANNE CLENDINING.

THANKS FOR WATCHING.

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* Announcer: MAJOR FUNDING FOR IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY...

THE MARYLAND GRAIN PRODUCERS INVESTING IN SMARTER FARMING AND AFFORDABLE FOOD, FEED, ADDITIONAL FUNDING PROVIDED BY GOOD FOR YOU, MARBIDCO, HELPING TO SUSTAIN FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS...

THE MARYLAND AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT MID-ATLANTIC FARM CREDIT, AND RURAL AMERICA...

RURAL MARYLAND COUNCIL, A COLLECTIVE VOICE FOR THE MARYLAND SOYBEAN BOARD PROGRESS POWERED BY FARMERS... WEGMANS FOOD MARKETS, HEALTHIER, THE MARYLAND ASSOCIATION OF SOIL AND BY...

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