These are some of our local friends:

Vickii Engell Thomas, The Center For Healing Arts, 112 E. Main Street, Westminster, Maryland, 21157

"Have the courage to go deep within your body and find exquisitely laced within every cell your Sacred Truths, the essential keys tht will open your Life's Path to Freedon & Joy, Peace and Possibility." says Vickii Engell Thomas, the Center's administrator and massage practitioner. We deliver CSA shares at the Center on Tuesday evenings.

Jim Thomas, Samara Healing Center, Taneytown, MD 21787, www.transhealing.com

Jim is a certified acupuncturist who combines acupuncture, bodywork and guided body-centered dialogue.

Jackie Coldsmith, De La Tierra Gardens, Taneytown, Maryland

Jackie is an excellent small farmer who specializes in starting plants and growing excellent produce. She also has started selling products from other local farmers, including milk products from Trickling Springs Farm.

Jaqui McMIllan, Drum for Joy leader,  is a skilled drum circle leader and drum teacher. She and her husband, Chris, also run a shop,  Magnolia House, a shop featuring crafts and art from local artists.

Peggy Adams leads Dances of Univeral Peace in Oella, Maryland once a month. She visits the farm once a year to lead that program here.

Diane Macklin, www.dianemacklin.com,  is master storyteller who came to last year's High Summer Feast and ate plates of tomatoes. This year, she will warm the heart with stories of love, triumph, and joy with her lyrical voice, mbira, and dancing hands..

Jim Small, of Small's Apiaries in Taneytown, maintains several bee hives on the farm.

Mark Gieron and his son, Josh, maintain the heifers that spend the summer in the pasture at White Rose Farm.

Steve Johnson, a local farmer in New Windsor, Maryland, raises our feeder pigs. His is licensed by the Maryland Department of Agriculture and has maintained a closed herd of York/Chester crosses for over 10 years.