In 2012, the Maryland General Assembly passed a law creating a new opportunity for farmers to diversify their farm business by loosening the requirements for creating an on-farm brewery. In this first half of the video, learn about the important and at times confusing ways this law interacts with local and federal laws and what it can mean for farmers.
The Agriculture Law Education Initiative (ALEI) is a collaboration of the Francis King Carey School of Law at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB); the College of Agriculture & Natural Resources at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP); and the School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. ALEI is an initiative of the University of Maryland: MPowering the State, a strategic alliance between UMB and UMCP created in 2012 to significantly expand research, business development, and student opportunities at both universities.
