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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.
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Join us in September for Pennsylvania’s Project Clean Stream Fall Kickoff!
Protecting Pennsylvania’s natural resources requires more than good policy – it demands a web of partnerships, a blend of innovation and tradition, and a deep respect for both the land and the people who steward it.
When Cindy Pizziketti became a Master Watershed Steward (MWS) with the dream to work in and foster the small creeks and streams she had enjoyed throughout her childhood, she had no idea how much the land impacts the health of our water, but quickly realized how much there was to do.
Most of Dave’s work focuses on projects and programs to provide farmers and other rural landowners with the technical and financial assistance for agricultural conservation practices and forested stream buffers in southeastern Pennsylvania.
The Alliance and The Hershey Company (Hershey) recently cleaned up the banks of Swatara Creek at Swatara Creek Park in Hershey, PA! The park is a great resource for recreation, featuring multiple fields for sports, access for shoreline fishing, and a small boat launch.
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.
Join us at The Railroad House Inn as we celebrate the 2025 Taste!
Join us at Robins Nature Center at Maymont as we celebrate the 2025 Taste!
The Alliance is leading a project in Lancaster County, PA to address important obstacles to agricultural soil health practice adoption.
