Jug Bay Market Garden

06/23/2017

We are in the middle of a great potato harvest. My Organic Market (MOM's) has them for sale. Thank you MOM's for being a big support of local organic farms!

01/20/2017

See and be seen at the Pearlstone Center Beit Midrash this spring.

The annual Shavuot Beit Midrash is an immersive retreat filled with inspiring Jewish learning, pluralistic community, spirited singing, and farm-to-table meals… The annual Shavuot Beit Midrash is an immersive Shabbaton retreat at the Pearlstone Center, filled with inspiring Jewish learning, spirited...

10/27/2016

Photos from the last CSA distribution yesterday. A good year even though the deer ate our main crop of tomatoes.

09/01/2016

Never seen the eggplants grow so high in the tunnel. Dancer is a very good variety. I think they will hit 8 feet before season's end. Nine with some more fish emulsion thru the drip line.

07/21/2016

This has been the situation for a long time so it is good for the NY Times to take notice. I think that it is better to just go to the store than to join a "CSA" that really is not local, or sources from multiple big farms and is not based on one family farm, or is investor not farmer owned, or as in the case of Relay Foods and others is all of the above.

As demand for local and organic produce has ballooned in the last five years, so have other ideas for connecting farmers to customers.

05/31/2016

CSA pickup on the Hill will be start late at 7pm tomorrow. I am going to school performance and need more time to pick in the afternoon.

05/18/2016

Scott is on the Hill with veggies, it has been a while! Hope people are finding the new pick up site with no trouble!

05/04/2016

The red clover is in full bloom and creating nitrogen. Croom resident Jeff took this photo by the Tayman Barn in the Saint Thomas Church field.

05/01/2016

THE CSA will start on Wednesday May 18. Pickup will be 6:00 to 7:30 pm on the Hill and 5:30 to 7:30pm. It is possible to leave shares out at both locations for late comers.

Please send us an email at [email protected] if you plan to join but have not sent payment yet.

04/08/2016

Hello everyone. CSA pickup this spring and summer will be at the backyard of CSA members Tara and Chiraag Ramchandani. Tara and Chiraag live at 522 6th Street SE and their backyard is in the same alley as the Christ Church parking lot.

We are looking to start the CSA the second or third week of May depending when enough crops are ready. Monday has always been the pickup day for the CSA but we can change that if more people prefer another day. If you plan to join the CSA this year, send us an email with your preference at [email protected]

The CSA season will be 18 weeks and cost $612, the same per week cost as 2014. Shares can be held with a $200 deposit and paid in any sort of installments. Checks can be sent to Jug Bay Market Garden at 10508 Croom RD, Upper Marlboro MD. 20772

02/05/2016

Here is our letter to the county executive in support of funding for the county ag marketing specialist. You can reach County Exec. Baker at [email protected]

To: County Executive Baker and the Prince George’s County Council
From: Scott Hertzberg, Jugbay Market Garden
Subject: Need to Continue Funding for a County Agriculture Marketing Specialist
February 4, 2016

We have operated a vegetable and flower farm on Croom Road in Upper Marlboro since 2001. We are concerned to hear that the M-NCPPC has decided it cannot continue to fund the Agriculture Marketing Specialist for Prince George's County beyond 2016. Kim Rush Lynch has been very helpful to us since she took over the position from Janna Howley, who also was a big supporter of our farm and other Prince George's County farm. Kim's weekly newsletters keep us in the loop about workshops and new resources. She is always quick to reply to my questions about new marketing opportunities. Just this week Kim connected us with the buyer at the Greenbelt Food Coop. She also connected us with people within extension who may help us figure out how to work out a complicated farmland lease. She has offered to help us with this as well.

Janna Howley helped us write an application for a $15,000 grant we received from the USDA's SARE program to build a vegetable dryer. We most likely would not have received the grant without her writing the application and adding a letter of support.

Local produce is now very popular. It may seem that farmers do not need much help selling their produce. The opposite is the case. The market has become very competitive with the rise in popularity. Very well financed operations have moved into the business taking up large market share. Smaller and mid-sized growers need assistance with marketing more than ever before. Operations like ours need help from the Ag Marketing Specialist to compete with the few large operations that, with large investor money, hire their own full-time marketing specialists. It is important to note most of these type of well-financed farms are from outside Prince George's County. The majority of us have to spend most our time farming and cannot afford marketing specialists. That is why having a passionate marketing specialist like Kim Rush Lynch is necessary to the vitality of the county's farm economy.

Sincerely, Scott Hertzberg

Scott Hertzberg
Jugbay Market Garden
10508 Croom RD
Upper Marlboro MD 20772
301-237-7538

10/24/2015

and he joined a CSA (not ours)

Here’s what the conscience of rural America has on his mind these days.