Maryland Rural Enterprise Development Center

Top 10 Pages

1-Dream-Plan-Implement
2-Food Processing -
Rules for Specific Food
3-Food Processing -
Agencies and Jurisdictions
4-Beginning Farmers
5-Horse Boarding
6-Specialty Vegetables
7-Vegetable Equipment and Irrigation
8-MREDC Interactive County Map
9-Enterprises
10-Small Farms Course

Maryland Alternative
Enterprise Center Hotlist

Agritourism
Alternative Livestock
Aquaculture
Forests and Natural Resources
Grapes
Horse Boarding
Mushrooms
Organic
Specialty Vegetables
Trees and Small Fruit
Urban Agriculture
Value-Added Marketing
Value-Added Products

Welcome to the Maryland Rural Enterprise Development Center!

New Online Resources and Announcements

This Center is an outreach of the University of Maryland Extension. It is a one-stop-shop for the latest and most successful business development innovations and support for Maryland's agriculture and natural resources enterprises. If you are currently, or would like to be, an agricultural/ natural resources entrepreneur, we invite you to explore this site.

You will find many resources presented in a variety of ways including our Distance Learning page where you will find podcasts on the latest topics. We want to hear from you, so please contact us with questions, comments or suggestions on how we can further improve the Maryland Rural Enterprise Development Center.

More Features

Dream Plan Implement
Small Farms Course
Farm Business Planning Workbook

One-Day Seminar - March 31, 2010
Changing Ag Markets Series presents: Ag Entrepreneurship - Income Opportunities for Tight Times

added 1/7/10

New Webinar!
Marketing & Promotional Tools for Pasture Raised Beef - What Works?
Adobe Webinar (Recorded)
Added:11/20/09

A Marketing Decision Tool and Guide for Grass-Fed Beef (University of Maryland Extension Bulletin 374)
Added 10/12/09

Financing for Agriculture Products (DRAFT)
Added 10/12/09

University of Maryland Extension programs are open to all citizens without regard to race, color, gender, disability, religion, age, sexual orientation, marital or parental status, or national origin.

For more information about this website, please contact Ellen Green
Last Updated: February 3, 2010