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HoCoMD.cc: Columbia farm to become Community Ecology Center

The Community Ecology Institute has until May 15 to raise $300,000 to buy this farm

Garden at Shaw farm, Harriet Tubman Lane in Columbia
Garden at Shaw farm, Harriet Tubman Lane in Columbia (courtesy of Community Ecology Institute)

It's a six-acre organic farm smack dab in the middle of Columbia's Hickory Ridge Village that the Shaw family has worked for almost 40 years. The nonprofit Community Ecology Institute (CEI) wants to save the farm from development but needs to raise $300,000 by the middle of May to make it happen. There are a multitude of reasons why need to support them.


Chief among them is CEI understands the impact that climate change may have on our community. They are committed to being a model for sustainable practices and teaching the skills of Mitigation, Adaptation and Resilience. Learn about their vision and help support it if you can. It's a worthy cause and important for the future of Columbia and Howard County, Md.

Go to HoCoMD.cc blogpost at http://hocomd.cc/2019/04/11/he...

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