University of Maryland faculty, staff and students are invited to attend the first-ever Terp Farm Fall Harvest Festival on Friday, October 9th from 2 to 5 p.m. The event will be hosted at Terp Farm which is housed at UMD’s Upper Marlboro agricultural research facility located about 15 miles south of the College Park campus.
This FREE, fall-themed event will feature food from Green Tidings Mobile Dining made with fresh ingredients produced at Terp Farm, a live performance from Hayley Fahey & Numbering Sundays, farm tours, pumpkin decorating, and information tables and activities provided by the College of Agriculture & Natural Resources.
Terp Farm is a collaborative project between UMD Dining Services, the College of Agriculture & Natural Resources and the Office of Sustainability. Each week, several hundred pounds of vegetables are harvested from Terp Farm and transported to campus to be served in select dining halls and on the Green Tidings mobile dining food truck. Produce from Terp Farm is also donated to food-insecure members of the campus through the Campus Pantry program and nearby communities.
“We are so excited to invite the university community out to Terp Farm for our first Fall Harvest Festival so they can see first-hand how we are producing fresh, sustainable, local food for Terps on campus,” said Allison Lilly, Sustainability & Wellness Coordinator for Dining Services and manager of Terp Farm. “It’s Terps growing food for other Terps and that is certainly worth celebrating.”
Free transportation to and from Terp Farm will be provided on the day of the festival. Shuttles provided by the Department of Transportation Services will be leaving from the side of The Stamp Student Union at Union Lane every half hour from 1:30 until 4:30 and returning from the farm every half hour from 2:15 until 5:15.
The address for the Upper Marlboro facility is 2005 Largo Road, Upper Marlboro, MD 20744. Free parking will be available at the farm.
Please visit the Terp Farm Fall Harvest Festival event page for additional information. Watch the following vignette produced by the Big Ten Network to learn more about the Terp Farm project:
