Tag: Koiner Farm

Celebrate Ethiopian New Year at Koiner Farm This Thursday

Source of the Spring Staff | Apr 27, 2025Sep 17, 2024 at 3:00 pm | Silver Spring, MD

Koiner Farm will host an Ethiopian New Year celebration this Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. with live music and food.

Meet the Faces Behind Koiner Farm’s Harvest Crew: A Community Spotlight

Source of the Spring Staff | Sep 17, 2024Jan 25, 2024 at 7:00 am | Silver Spring, MD

Koiner Farm is now a bustling place offering weekly farmstands, educational programs, food assistance partnerships, and regular community-building events.

CKC Farming Deputy Director Honored as a Local Hero

Source of the Spring Staff | Apr 19, 2025Aug 15, 2021 at 12:54 pm | Silver Spring, MD

CKC Farming deputy director Hannah Sholder has been honored by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-District 8) as a Local Hero of the Week for her work with farming in local communities, notably at Koiner Farm in Silver Spring.

Koiner Farm Founder Honored on 100th Birthday

Source of the Spring Staff | Jan 22, 2025Nov 28, 2020 at 9:00 am | Silver Spring, MD

The Charles Koiner Conservancy for Urban Farming this week posted a video in tribute to Koiner Farm founder Charles Koiner, honoring him on what would have been his 100th birthday.

Koiner Farm to Add Equipment, Extend Growing Season

Mike Diegel | Sep 17, 2024Sep 29, 2020 at 1:30 pm | Silver Spring, MD

Koiner Farm in Silver Spring will be adding equipment this fall that will allow it to extend the growing season for certain crops, according to Kate Medina, founder and executive director of the Charles Koiner Conservancy for Urban Farming.

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

Mike Diegel | Sep 17, 2024May 12, 2020 at 1:30 pm | Silver Spring, MD

Editor’s note: This guest post and photo is from Jonna Huseman, who began the Voices project to document the lives of friends and neighbors in Silver Spring and Takoma Park and how they may have changed since the shelter in place order. It originally appeared on her blog, The Sligo Creek Photographer.

Koiner Farm Granted Conservation Easement for Agriculture

Mike Diegel | Mar 19, 2025Sep 16, 2019 at 10:25 am | Silver Spring, MD

The Koiner Farm in downtown Silver Spring has been granted the county’s first conservation easement for urban agriculture. The easement, in partnership with the Maryland Environmental Trust, permanently protects the one-acre from ever being developed.

A Tribute to Montgomery County’s First Urban Farmer, Mr. Charles Koiner

Mike Diegel | Jan 22, 2025Jan 22, 2019 at 10:03 am | Silver Spring, MD

“Old farmers never die. They live on in the tenderly nurtured soil and in the future promise of their seed.”

New Nonprofit Formed to Help Preserve, Create Urban Farms

Mike Diegel | Oct 9, 2024Apr 12, 2018 at 4:14 pm | Silver Spring, MD

Two local residents have formed a new nonprofit organization, the Charles Koiner Center for Urban Farming, both to help preserve a Silver Spring institution and to eventually create a network of similar farms.

Numerous car break-ins reported around Silver Spring

Source of the Spring Staff | Sep 17, 2024Aug 15, 2017 at 9:53 am | Silver Spring, MD

Over the past week, we have received several reports of car break-ins occurring around Silver Spring, including several at Parkside Terrace Apartments overnight, as well as on Easley Street.

County police arrest suspect in attempted break-in

Mike Diegel | Sep 17, 2024Aug 14, 2017 at 6:09 pm | Silver Spring, MD

Montgomery County Police this morning arrested a suspect in an attempted break-in on Easley Street in East Silver Spring.

Silver Spring Gems: Koiner Farm

Source of the Spring Staff | Mar 3, 2025Aug 9, 2017 at 12:00 pm | Silver Spring, MD

For 30-plus years, Charlie Koiner and his daughter, Lynn, have grown over 20 types of produce in a one-acre plot behind the house that the Koiner family has owned since the 1930s.