Great Frederick Fair Networking

State and country fairs, like the Great Frederick Fair, have a strong networking component. 

Here are some examples presented at the 2009 fair.

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/

http://www.mde.state.md.us/

http://www.co.frederick.md.us/index.aspx?NID=194

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/watersheds/surf/proj/wras.html

http://www.watershed-alliance.com/

http://www.nps.gov/cato/index.htm

http://www.heartofthecivilwar.org/

http://www.cunninghamgambrill.org/

Update: My wife and I had the privilege to enjoy Toby Mac sing Christian songs at the Great Frederick Fair in 2021. 

We also took my grandson to the Great Frederick Fair in 2021. 

It was such a joy to see him laugh at the duck slide, pet horses, see cows, sit on tractors and "drive" them, enjoy lemonade and ham sandwiches, and share precious time with my wife and I at his side.

Please take your family to a county or state agricultural fair.

It is a blessing and will create memories you will treasure for your few remaining years on this earth.

Great Frederick Fair 4-H

The Great Frederick Fair 2009 is always a wonder of the agricultural bounty of Frederick County, MD, and much more. This post will focus on agrictultural bounty. The next post will focus on networking and the third on the business end of fair, or pure capitalist wonder.

I find such county and state fairs a harvest reminder of the farming basis of this great American experiment and my own family's farm in Perkasie, PA and my Pennsylvania Dutch ancestors as well. My wife's family ownes and operates the Ruggles Orchard in Levels, WV.

So few Americans make their living at farming these days that we are in danger of losing our identity as an agricultural nation, yet agriculture is what created and continues to create the basis of our civilization. Agricultural fairs are a great way to remember how important the abundance of God's good earth is to our past, present and future.

So much of what goes on at any ag fair is created by 4-H, which includes science, engineering and technology. See their hard work reflected in their products below.