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Report: Montgomery County Farmers Get Leg Up from Mentoring Program
The New Farmer Pilot Project launched this year with seven farmers.
By Patch Field Editor Whitney Teal
Farming is not easy, especially in a place like Montgomery County, where land isn’t cheap. A pilot program from the Montgomery County Department of Economic Development should help, The Gazette reports.
For the first year, seven residents—out of 18 applications—were chosen for the New Farmer Pilot Project, the newspaper reported.
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“We link new farmers with existing lands and provide mentoring,” Steve Silverman, director of the Department of Economic Development, told The Gazette. “It’s a page out of our incubator playbook except this was for agricultural.”
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