Let’s Go! Garrett County
Join Garrett County’s newest well-being initiative, designed to make healthy choices, easy choices! Registering for an account is FREE, and you’ll have multiple opportunities to win great prizes as you learn tips and tricks to prevent or tackle chronic diseases.
Front Porch Goodness w/ Fresh Ingredients! +3 Prize Points
Watch Thomas George, Jr. DNP, CRNP, FNP-C create several delicious dishes from fresh, local ingredients found at Ma & Pa’s Country Store! The tips he shares and the knowledge he brings us from his travels and experience from different cultures is a real treat. He...
Go! Garrett County – Special Opportunity! – Find Out How to Get a $50 Gift Card!
Try the Free Autumn Diabetes Prevention Class & Get a $50 Gift CertificateFor a limited time, try the FREE Diabetes Prevention Class at Garrett Regional Medical Center, and you’ll earn a $50 grocery gift card to Shop N’ Save Express in Oakland! Call Mitzi at...
New Local Business Promotes Building Community – +3 Prize Points
https://youtu.be/p7E7w0S_MEQ The general store concept as a gathering place has returned to Kelso Gap to support the local farms that sustain many with local crops and beef. Ma & Pa's Country Store is situated on the east side of Backbone Mountain, just a short...
Working On Broadband Expansion In Garrett County With Congressman David Trone – +3 Prize Points
To bolster support in Congress, Congressman Trone visited the county to talk to the folks who wrote letters of support about broadband needs on Friday, August 20th in the Commissioners’ public meeting room at the Garrett Co. courthouse in Oakland. We are one step...
Farmers’ Market Week – Day 6 – Mountain Fresh Farmers Market – +3 Prize Points
https://youtu.be/hXIclWWzo8I What you find at the Mountain Fresh Farmers Market is an abundance of foods that are in their natural state with little or no processing and no artificial ingredients. Like many things, food falls on a spectrum. At one end you have the...
Farmers’ Market Week – Day 5 – Mountain Fresh Farmers Market – +3 Prize Points
https://youtu.be/O7MoyesqvD8 Thomas trades tips and recipes with the Gnegys at the Mountain Fresh Farmers Market. There's plenty to choose from for healthy and delicious meals and snacks here but a unique cruciferous vegetable that can be eaten raw, roasted, or...
Farmers’ Market Week – Day 4 – Mountain Fresh Farmers Market – +3 Prize Points
https://youtu.be/G-EDW3w8mBs Which one, cilantro or coriander caused Thomas to smile like the Cheshire cat at the Mountain Fresh Farmers Market? As he continues to shop for fresh produce to use in the Latin-themed recipes he's going to make for us next week, he sees a...
Farmers’ Market Week – Day 3 – +3 Prize Points
https://youtu.be/OgGQ3DkhWjw In Garrett County we are so lucky to have so much fresh produce and this time of year sweet corn that is literally picked from the field right before we eat it! Thomas had fun talking with the Lantz' and some customers about how they like...
Farmers’ Market Week – Day 2 – Mountain Fresh Farmers Market – +3 Prize Points
https://youtu.be/7Fym1i1XNFc Peppers, Peppers & More Peppers! Thomas has some ideas for Latin cuisine and the goliath griller pepper variety piqued his curiosity for the dish he wants to prepare for us next week! According to Allen Lilly, this variety's finest...
Farmers’ Market Week – Day 1 – Mountain Fresh Farmers Market – +3 Prize Points
Join us as we explore Oakland's Mountain Fresh Farmers Market. It's a non-profit group of farmers, artisans, cooks, and bakers in our beautiful Appalachian Mountains of western Maryland and northeastern West Virginia. Try some local produce on your menu this week,...