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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.
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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.
On Friday, April 4, 2025, we kicked off our 23rd season of Project Clean Stream (PCS)! Thank you to all of our dedicated volunteers and partners who helped us kick off the season.
The Alliance hosted the Symposium on Emerging Contaminants in the Bay, in partnership with Morgan State University. This groundbreaking event highlighted cutting-edge research, innovative solutions, and collaborative strategies for tackling issues related to emerging contaminants.
Thank you to everyone who made the 2025 Volunteer Tree Planting Relay possible! Over the course of the day on April 5, 2025, the Alliance team, partners, and 186 dedicated volunteers planted 1,200 trees across the watershed.
Green infrastructure’s designs and applications offer breathtaking, sustainable solutions to many of the challenges we face today. Explore some of these innovative techniques from around the world.
The methods used to farm have lasting impacts on water and habitat quality, animal welfare, farmers’ livelihoods, and access to fresh foods.
Proggin’ is a very Chesapeake-specific term for beachcombing. My family and I have spent hours just walking the shore, looking down at what washed up.
Spring is right around the corner, but don’t trim back your dormant plants just yet! While this year’s colder-than-normal winter might have you wanting to get back in the garden, it’s important to wait until the last freeze of the season before starting spring cleaning.
As someone who works in communications, where my job can be boiled down to making people care more about the Chesapeake Bay, this little lesson on marine ecology, delivered by a weather-beaten boat captain no less, was no doubt the highlight of my trip.
