Small Tools & Equipment Demo

Event Description: 

Join Future Harvest, the Million Acre Challenge, Dr. Nazirahk Amen and Dreaming Out Loud Farm Manager Autumn Herbert to learn all about small tools and equipment. We will conduct demonstrations of various tools, with plenty of time for questions and for you to try tools yourself. This includes and intro to the BCS walk behind tractor as well. This workshop will also feature equipment considerations for managing soil health and in-field soil health assessments, using the Maryland Soil Health Card. There will also be an optional farm tour and hands-on volunteer hour after lunch from 1:00 - 2:00 pm.

Lunch tickets are no longer available as of 8/19/25.

About the Farm:

In the fall of 2015, a farmer told Dreaming Out Loud (DOL) about some land that was available for stewardship. Kelly Miller Farm is in Ward 7, located behind the Kelly Miller Middle School.

This is also the location of their farmers' market, which they host every year on Saturdays from June to November. 

The land is not only for farming! It's for bringing people together. They host two festivals on this land to bring the community together, one in the spring and one in the fall. They also provide community garden beds that allow residents of Ward 7 to grow their own food and flowers.

About Dreaming Out Loud:

Dreaming Out Loud has been rebuilding urban, community-based food systems, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, developing low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and training at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages since 2008. 

About Dr. Nazirahk Amen:

Founder of Purple Mountain Tools and Purple Mountain Grown, Nazirahk Amen has over 20 years of growing experience.  His goal for many years has been to grow as much of the food his family eats as possible and to help others do the same.