Purchasing Information: The Money Crop - $22.00 The Money Crop: Calvert County After The Tobacco Buyout This exceptional and eloquent book evokes the past, present, and future of Calvert County's rural life and land. It offers a rich description of tobacco farming equally devoted to agriculture, to human culture in the broadest sense, and to the landscape. We learn how the money crop was grown, harvested, and sold; who did the work and what sorts of buildings and tools were necessary to the task; and finally - thanks in large part to the handsome photographs throughout the volume - about the lay of the land. The book explains what has happened to the tobacco farmer in recent times, including the buyout by the state of Maryland. The text is animated by the words of many individuals, from farm owners to tenants, from laborers to auction house owners. The speakers assess the profound changes that affect Calvert as tobacco-growing is drastically curtailed.