​Leaderships Montgomery Selects Katherine Medina, Executive Director of the Charles Koiner Conservancy for Urban Farming (CKC), for the 2025 CORE Program

For Immediate Release, July 30, 2024

Click here for full press release

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Koiner Farm: First Nonprofit Urban Farm on MoCo Farm Tour

WUSA 9 News, July 26, 2024

https://www.wusa9.com/article/tech/science/environment/farm-tours-montgomery-county-agricultural-reserve-maryland/65-4688b5b4-80e2-4bc3-9f65-a353e51f2fc7

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Best Places to Live for Families: Silver Spring, MD

Fortune Magazine, July 2024

https://fortune.com/well/ranking/best-places-families/2024/silver-spring/

 

 

Students and Volunteers Break Ground on Huge Urban Farm at A. Mario Loiederman Middle School in Wheaton, MD

Montgomery County Medina, April 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOx-r4-Fduo

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MCPS Break Ground on Innovative New Community Hub and Urban Farm at Loiederman Middle School in Wheaton, MD

For Immediate Release, April 2024

Click here for full press release

 

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CKC Farming's Deputy Director Named "Local Hero" by Congressman Jamie Raskin

Source of the Spring, August 2021

https://www.sourceofthespring.com/silver-spring-news/ckc-farming-deputy-director-honored-as-a-local-hero/

 

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Life in the Time of Coronavirus: Voices from Silver Spring - Hannah Sholder, Koiner Farm

Source of the Spring, May 2020

https://www.sourceofthespring.com/silver-spring-news/life-time-coronavirus-voices-silver-spring-hannah-sholder-koiner-farm/

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Downtown on the Farm: Land trust ensures Silver Spring's Koiner Farm will remain an agricultural easement

Montgomery Magazine, December 2019

https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=637265&ver=html5&p=24#{%22page%22:%2224%22,%22issue_id%22:637265,%22publication_id%22:%2232591%22}

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An ode to Charlie Koiner, the last farmer of Silver Spring

Washington Post, June 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/local-opinions/an-ode-to-charlie-koiner-the-last-farmer-of-silver-spring/2019/06/21/c395113a-91e3-11e9-aadb-74e6b2b46f6a_story.html?utm_term=.c1da0321357c

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Two men who left their marks on Washington in very different ways

Washington Post, February 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/celebrating-two-men-who-left-their-marks-on-washington-in-very-different-ways/2019/02/10/0103e486-297c-11e9-b011-d8500644dc98_story.html?utm_term=.bee152b268aa

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A Tribute to Montgomery County's First Urban Farmer, Charles Koiner

Source of the Spring, January 2019

https://www.sourceofthespring.com/people/farmer/

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Maryland Farm & Harvest episode 606

Maryland Public Television (mpt) on PBS, December 2018

http://www.mpt.org/programs/farm/farm606/?fbclid=IwAR0DTwKFz-HL47K3PBc3bCTpMiL4SO6_yMdnSMVhhHXY-bb99bZ1zmX9TOc

 

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The First Urban Farmer: 98-year old Charlie Koiner is breaking new ground - literally - just blocks from downtown SS

Montgomery Magazine, October 2018

http://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=529958&ver=html5&p=56#{%22page%22:%2256%22,%22issue_id%22:529958}

 

Gems of Silver Spring: Koiner Farm

Source of the Spring, August 2018

https://www.sourceofthespring.com/business/business-profiles/silver-spring-gems-koiner-farm/

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"Hidden gem" in Silver Spring offers model to other farms

Fair Farms, August 2018

https://fairfarmsnow.org/hidden-gem-in-silver-spring-offers-model-to-other-urban-farms/

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Looking to the next harvest: as owner of of tiny farm nears 100, volunteers offer help

Washington Post, July 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/looking-to-the-next-harvest-as-owner-of-tiny-farm-nears-100-volunteers-offer-help/2018/07/26/a965237a-8b83-11e8-8aea-86e88ae760d8_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a00380181f19

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Meet the Exhibitor: CKC Farming 

KID Museum, Press Release, September 2018

https://kid-museum.org/blog/meet-kidfest-exhibitor-ckc-farming/

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Promo-interviews for the M-NCPPC Foodie Fridays Speaker Series 

Montgomery Parks, Facebook Live, May 2018

https://www.facebook.com/MontgomeryParks/videos/10155638215672201/

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Montgomery Parks Launches Foodie Fridays Speaker Series 

The Patch: Silver Spring, May 2018

https://patch.com/maryland/silverspring/montgomery-parks-launches-foodie-fridays-speaker-series

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New Nonprofit Formed to Help Preserve, Create Urban Farms

Source of the Spring, April 2018

https://www.sourceofthespring.com/other/new-nonprofit-formed-help-preserve-create-urban-farms/

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Meet the KID-fest Exhibitor: CKC Farming

KID Museum, July 2018

https://kid-museum.org/blog/meet-kidfest-exhibitor-ckc-farming/

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Montgomery County council passes urban agriculture tax credit bill

DCW50 News, March 2017

https://dcw50.com/2017/03/08/montgomery-county-council-passes-urban-farm-tax-credit-bill/

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96-year old man still farming in the middle of the city 

WUSA 9 News, March 2017

http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/96-year-old-man-still-farming-in-the-middle-of-the-city/424731270

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MoCo Council Moves to Help Protect Koiner Farm

Montgomery County Council Cable, November 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7t2748XrG8

 

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A farmer's dream in downtown Silver Spring

Washington Post, June 2011

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-farmers-dream-in-downtown-silver-spring/2011/06/09/AGmmbLPH_story.html?utm_term=.aaa512784caf

 

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Remembering When: area residents recall days of dinner dances, war time rationing and encounters with celebrities

Bethesda Magazine, September 2019

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-magazine/november-december-2009/remembering-when-2/3/

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Corner Plot

Vimeo, 2010 

https://vimeo.com/83442349

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