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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.
Greening Greater Fulton is complete! The Alliance worked closely with partners to implement a green street on Richmond’s Government Road, bringing the Greater Fulton community’s vision of a vibrant, safer, green business district to life.
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 for the Chesapeake Bay is seeking proposals for a professional landscaper or contractor to collaborate with the Alliance and its partners to install a dry stream bed and to plant conservation landscaping and native trees at a nature playground at Blackwell Park in Richmond, VA.
In Celebration of June Dairy Month, Giant Food recently awarded more than $65,000 to the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay (Alliance) to implement sustainability practices on local dairy farms in the Chesapeake Bay.
The Alliance is leading a project in Lancaster County, PA to address important obstacles to agricultural soil health practice adoption.
