If Anne Arundel is successful in negotiating with the Navy, organic produce at area stores and markets have a better chance of being grown locally.

The county is working out a deal to become a long-term leaseholder of the 850-acre U.S. Naval Academy Dairy Farm in Gambrills, home to the state?s largest single plot of organic farmland. The farm once provided milk for the Naval Academy.

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