For Immediate Release

The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay (Alliance) and Perdue Farms (Perdue) celebrated the 55th Earth Day and their strong partnership by removing trash from local Schumaker Park in Salisbury, Maryland, as part of the Alliance’s annual Project Clean Stream initiative.

“We’re grateful to Perdue and their associate volunteers for their 17-year commitment to Project Clean Stream,” said Lauren Sauder, Capacity Building Projects Manager at the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay. “Project Clean Stream was created by the Alliance in 2002 to provide a hands-on opportunity for individuals, community partners, and businesses to get involved with protecting and restoring their local streams, parks and waterways in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.”

Perdue Farms joined the Project Clean Stream initiative in 2008 with 30 volunteers at a local pond in Salisbury. In 2011, Perdue expanded the Project Clean Stream concept across the company to encourage associates to organize similar clean-up efforts in their communities. Since then, associates have removed more than 500,000 pounds of trash and debris for local ecosystems.

“Earth Day is a reminder of our obligation to future generations to protect and preserve our communities, like the beautiful Chesapeake Bay watershed,” said Drew Getty, vice president of environmental sustainability for Perdue Farms. “Project Clean Stream provides an exciting opportunity to engage our associates in helping protect the environment in the communities where they live and work, while reinforcing our company’s commitment to being a good corporate citizen.” 

The Alliance-Perdue Farms partnership goes beyond Project Clean Stream, as the two organizations have collaborated to help Pennsylvania farms increase conservation and nature-based practices on grower farms. Grant funding from the National Fish & Wildlife fund has helped outreach to these farms and provided technical and financial assistance resulting in composting sheds to improve manure management, increased riparian buffers along stream sides, and tree plantings within poultry pastures. This partnership has big plans to expand work to meet more farmer needs around the Chesapeake Bay watershed. By focusing on high impact practices, such as building soil health and planting riparian buffers to protect waterways, the partnership hopes to restore natural habitat and biodiversity at the farm level.

About Perdue Farms

We’re a fourth-generation, family-owned, U.S. food and agriculture company. Through our belief in responsible food and agriculture, we are empowering consumers, customers, and farmers through trusted choices in products and services. 

Perdue Foods consists of a premium protein portfolio, including our flagship PERDUE® brand, Niman Ranch®, Coleman Natural®, Pasturebird®, and Yummy®, as well as our pet brands, Full Moon® and Spot Farms®, and is available through various channels including retail, foodservice, club stores and our direct-to-consumer website, PerdueFarms.com.

Perdue AgriBusiness is a leading merchandiser, processor, and exporter of agricultural products and the largest U.S. manufacturer of specialty, organic, and non-GMO oils. It also ranks as one of the largest suppliers of organic feed ingredients in the world. 

Now in our company’s second century, we never use drugs for growth promotion in raising poultry and livestock, and we are actively advancing our animal welfare programs. Our brands are leaders in no-antibiotics-ever and in USDA-certified organic proteins. Learn more at Corporate.PerdueFarms.com.

About the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay

Since 1971, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay has served as the ‘backbone’ for action-oriented impact and collaboration across our watershed. With four strategically placed offices and four focused programs, we’re positioned to solve downstream problems with upstream solutions. Through boots-on-the-ground solutions, technical assistance, and expertise, we prevent pollution where it begins – on the land – before it reaches our rivers and the Chesapeake. By collaborating with like-minded individuals and organizations, the Alliance becomes a catalyst, building the capacity of others to join and accelerate clean water in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Media Contacts

Adam Miller – 717-324-7820 – amiller@allianceforthebay.org

Bill See – 410-341-2412 – bill.see@perdue.com