Featured "rural-biz" of the week:
GOLDEN LEAF FARM, BRANDYWINE: land of honey & Wine
Golden Leaf Farm is a family owned and operated apiary and vineyard located in the quiet rural town of Brandywine, MD. Joseph Romano, Beekeeper, and his wife Jo-Ann have been producing pure, all-natural honey for six years. According to Jo-Ann, “We started with two hives producing honey for ourselves, family, and friends. We now manage eleven hives. Our honey is 100% pure, natural, Southern Maryland honey.” The honey is extracted from the hives, lightly filtered to remove any wax, and then bottled. “We do not pasteurize or pressure filter our honey so our customers get the most flavorful honey the bees have to offer.”“In the spring of 2007 we established a
vineyard with the help of our daughters Tiffany and Tarah and our son-in-law James. We planted1200 wine grape vines consisting of 4 Hybrid and 2 Vinifera varieties and 32 table grape vines consisting of 7 varieties. As of April e24, 2007, we were fully established. Our 1200 vines were all in the ground. Our goal is to produce quality Maryland grown grapes to support Maryland wineries.
”This past August, Golden Leaf Farm became one of 13 farms in Southern Maryland to receive a Grape Growers grant from the Tri-County Council of Southern Maryland in partnership with the So Maryland So Good.
For more info contact JoAnn Romano 301-888-2227 or jromano@honeyhaven.net
1 comment:
From Rich Dolesh
Director of Public Policyd
National Recreation and Park Association
http://www.nrpa.org/
Washington, DC 20006-3405
"I am very interested in what you have put together with your RuralBiz website (very attractive, by the way), and I think it will be of interest to many others who are supportive of the preservation of natural resource based economies in rural areas. I don’t know if you have ever brought this to the attention of groups like the Land Trust Alliance, or groups like that, but I think local land trusts especially would be interested in how you are promoting local, natural resource and agricultural businesses to local people."
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