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For the past four years, the Alliance’s Agriculture team worked with an organic dairy farm in Lancaster County, PA, and last year, this nutrient reduction project was completed! Mr. Abner Stotlzfus, a Plain Sect farmer, operates a 40-cow organic dairy, supplying high-quality milk to Organic Valley.
Indigenous people understood the importance of sustainability and stewardship, and occupied the Susquehanna River Valley as early as 16,000 years ago during the “Paleo-Indian” era.
The Alliance has had another growth spurt! Please join us in welcoming new team members across the watershed.
Despite its famed cherry blossoms, the District of Columbia does not typically come to mind when envisioning outdoor greenspace. However, with its plentiful parks, generous waterfront access, and extensive urban tree canopy, Washington, DC has more to offer in the way of greenspace than one might expect.
Pennsylvania offers abundant opportunities for agriculture conservation; it’s home to over 49,000 farms, covering 7 million acres. Running through these acres is an abundant network of waterways that ultimately feed into the Chesapeake Bay. PA has about 85,500 miles of rivers and streams which supply over 2,000,000 acres of lakes, bays, and wetlands.
The Alliance is leading a project in Lancaster County, PA to address important obstacles to agricultural soil health practice adoption.
The Alliance is leading a project in Lancaster County, PA to address important obstacles to agricultural soil health practice adoption. Part of the program will provide cost-share for farmers to rent equipment needed for soil health practices.
Since launching our Richmond-based agriculture team in 2021, the Alliance has expanded its efforts across the Commonwealth of Virginia, working closely with farmers and rural landowners from all corners of the state.
What draws you to spend time outdoors each spring? A topic currently filling my social media feeds with reports, accomplishments, and heartache from participants around the watershed; morel mushrooms.
