Any Pumpkin Farms In Western Maryland

Is it fair to say that Maryland and Delaware are, culturally, no longer Southern?

It really depends on where you are talking. Now I can’t speak for Delaware since I’ve only ever driven through it, but I moved to Maryland 7 years ago from Southern Virginia and this is what I can tell you:I live in St. Mary’s County. It’s that little strip of land South of D.C. nestled between the Potomac and Patuxant Rivers and the Bay. To get out of the county you have to go north unless you want to take a boat. We have families that came over here on the Ark and the Dove. We have a dialect all our own that we don’t even notice. (Aside here: I had my cousin over from Northern Virginia and we ran into a friend of mine at Target. My friend and I had a short conversation and the said our goodbyes. My cousin said she couldn’t understand a word we were saying and said it sounded like we were drunk.) We are largely rural, relying on the land and water for income, aside from the Navy Base. The nearest mall is about an hour away in a different county. We used to be a dry county, but we now have legislation that basically makes it impossible for grocery stores to sell liquor in the actual, for lack of better phrasing, food store. Hence, every grocery store has a liquor store attached to it. Speaking of grocery stores, Your going to McKay’s, the family owned grocery chain run by the McKay’s of Hollywood, MD. My hometown, Leonardtown, has a grand total of 4 traffic lights. When we have historical reenactments, we have both union and confederate reenactors show up.When you get up to Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties, the one’s surrounding DC, and Baltimore, you’ll find a culture more similar to the North east. There are areas on the Eastern Shore that are more like my county, and you’ll find a culture more similar to the rest of Appalachia to the west.Perhaps we aren’t as southern as we in St. Mary’s like to think we are, but it is annoying when people think of Maryland as a monoculture because of DC, Baltimore, and Ocean City. It really is a transition state and the feel of South v. North changes from county to county.

What are some scientific institutions in the Washington DC/Maryland area that one could visit for "fun"?

(a lot of these are restricted in the sense that you need to “know” someone to visit them, but it’s not hard to ask someone for a visit at many of these places..)The area is a massive research powerhouse, and since it doesn’t have huge prestige, the barriers to entry are lower (and it doesn’t carry some of the problems associated with some places of higher prestige - prestige often tends to change people’s behavior, though not all of it is necessarily bad..).Carnegie Institution for ScienceJanelia Farm Research Campus (e.g. Research at Janelia: Life on the farm)HHMINASA GoddardJohns Hopkins (more research funding than almost any other institute)NIH, NIA, NSF, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). A lot of science guinea pigs live in area due to the abundance of clinical trials.University of MarylandGeorge Mason University (particularly their Economics department)NOAA headquarters

What are some weird American dishes? It has to be an established dish. It can't be a "weird personal habit". It has to be a dish a lot of people eat, and it can't be something unhealthy.

I see a lot of answers involving fair-food, country staples, and forgotten recipes that were the results of war-stressed eras. But just take a step back and really look at the American food norm. Most of the oddest things are shockingly normal.While Ramen Noodles are extremely popular, an American equivalent is the Easy-Mac-N-Cheese. And, as cheese is uncommon in Asia, let alone the Kraft processed variation, can you imagine their reaction to putting it on noodles?And then you have Hamburger Helper. God, I vomited a little saying that. I can’t believe people can live on that, or think noodles should taste like that, but to each their own. Basically, all the ingredients for meat and noodles in a package. But there is no good way to serve it. It will always come out tasting like somebody seasoned a paste of flour and water with a small squeeze of barbeque.Since noodles has become a theme, Spaghetti-Os’, as someone mentioned, are nasty. But they’re popular!?!? And it tastes the same as canned ravioli, which is also a thing, which is also disgusting. Basically, the American food system just tries to make everything as ready-to-eat as possible with minimal cooking time. And it shows. But it has produced a few gems.Like… I don’t know, microwavable bacon? Basically, a bunch of staples in the food diet of the average college student or someone kitchen-impaired. Well, there’s that and—OH! GRILLED CHEESE!While popularized in the Great Depression, this food is widely consumed to this day. AND I LOVE IT. Take two pieces of bread. Put cheese between it. And, as personal hero Alton Brown phrased it, the popular dish is not actually grilled, it’s ‘griddled’. Stick that sucker in a cast-iron skillet and flip when underside browns.That’s it. American food in one bite. No effort, no finesse, just sorta melty, processed cheese between some either golden brown or blackened pieces of bread (use a low cooking temp and a lot of butter). Delicious. I love you, America.

What is alternate medicine?

According to the MEDICAL DICTIONARY, this is the definition of ‘alternative medicine’:nounMedical Definition of alternative medicine: any of various systems of healing or treating disease (as homeopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy, Ayurveda, or faith healing) that are not included in the traditional curricula taught in medical schools of the United States and Britain.This definition is interesting because very slowly, more alternative therapies are starting to make it into the medical schools curricula, at least on the nursing side of things, where things like aromatherapy and therapeutic touch are pretty mainstream now, in many institutions.Take a look at this site, for more details:Therapeutic Touch home page at Pumpkin Hollow FarmPerhaps a better explanation of alternative health would be something along these lines:Healing modalities and therapies that work more with the body’s subtle energy systems, including the meridians, than with the more concrete aspects of the body.Alternative medicine also deals with the person holistically, which means that they understand that every illness or health problem is actually interlinked with a number of other things, such as emotional health, stress, diet and lifestyle choices, to name but a few.By contrast, conventional Western medicine treats an illness as a ‘discrete’ problem of that part of system, and not connected to other health issues.If you’d like to learn more about energy meridians, try this article on wiki:Meridian (Chinese medicine)And these articles on my website:how western medicine lost its 'soul'how western medicine lost its soul - part 2why quantum physics and kabbalah are saying the same thing, health-wisehope this is helpfulRivka Levywww.spiritualselfhelp.org