Letter to the Editor: Nick’s Organic Farm Ideal Project

The following is a letter from Sarah Shor regarding the Brickyard Road Soccer Field Project.

County Executive Ike Leggett and members of the Montgomery County Council deserve praise for the recent creation of the Montgomery Food Council. It provides a much-needed forum to develop a more sustainable food system, promote healthy eating and support local jobs. It enhances efforts to support healthy living through community gardens and the Agricultural Reserve in the County’s northern reaches. 

Now the Food Council has the opportunity to make a mark by supporting a unique ag education center on the urban fringe as well: Nick’s Organic Farm in Potomac, on schools land and already operating organically for more than 30 years. This unique 20-acre plot, the only organic seed farm in the County, offers rare hands-on opportunities for area children. Providing education here makes even more sense, given that the Maryland State Board of Education now requires students demonstrate environmental literacy to graduate. It would be available at no cost to the County. Rather than pursue the plan to destroy this farm for soccer fields, the County could work with the Food Council to maximize its unique potential.   

Sara Shor

Save Nick's Organic Farm

info@savenicksorganicfarm.org

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