Featured Projects

Creating a Culture of Conservation from Farm to Table

Everyone eats. The most direct way to engage farmers and consumers in their shared responsibility to water quality is to touch on how food is produced and consumed.

This initiative seeks to build lucrative markets for fresh, local “Bay friendly” products, providing financial incentives directly to farmers for achieving nutrient reductions, while engaging consumers to do their part to support “Bay friendly products” and achieve their own reductions.

This National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) –funded project ties food consumption to Bay nutrient and sediment reductions in innovative ways:

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NFWF Farm to Table

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Livestock Exclusion

This project was developed to help keep livestock out of Valley waterways, ultimately the Bay, and document associated Benefits attributed to this practice such as herd health, water quality, and natural stream bank revegetation.

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