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[VIDEO] Nick's Organic Farm, Brickyard Educational Farm Given Reprieve
A circuit court judge on Tuesday granted the farm a stay, halting soccer field development for the time being.
The sight of children running around fields picking vegetables, feeding chickens and painting garden signs -- the scene at Brickyard Road in Potomac just a few days ago -- may be here to stay. The children are visiting the Brickyard Educational Farm, part of the property currently housing a 30-year-old organic farm in the heart of Potomac. The farm faces eviction by Montgomery County and Montgomery County Public Schools so the carefully tended plots can be developed into MSI soccer fields, but a Circuit Court judge Tuesday nullified a lease agreement between Montgomery County and Montgomery County Public Schools, potentially allowing the educational farm to stay on the land indefinitely. The county and school board are in dispute with …
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joseph butswinkas
10:31 am on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
The B.O.E. and others who think that the soccer field project will be in the best interest of Montgomery County are in a word "ignorant". Our kids today are sorely lacking in knowledge of farming and what it's all about. Let them enjoy nature and watch the plants mature as they themselves will, and see that you made a wise choice in not approving this stupid project. Start thinking outside of the… more ›