Taste of the Chesapeake

Celebrating Cindy Pizziketti – Taste PA Watershed Champion

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.

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Celebrating Nissa Richardson – Taste VA Watershed Champion

The past 25 years of Nissa’s career has focused on Chesapeake Bay restoration initiatives, with a keen focus on local water quality improvements.

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Celebrating David Wise – Taste Fran Flanigan Awardee

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.

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Celebrating Jeanne Braha – Taste DC Watershed Champion

Jeanne Braha has dedicated her career to connecting people with nearby nature to catalyze environmental stewardship.

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Thank you for another successful Taste!

The 2024 Taste was another great success! Many thanks to our sponsors and friends for raising $116k for our mission to restore the lands and waters of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

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Celebrate Our 2024 Taste Award Winners

One of our favorite parts of the Taste is honoring individuals who have gone above and beyond to help improve the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

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Thank You for a Successful 2023 Taste

We had a great time celebrating the Chesapeake this year with our family, friends, partners, and volunteers across the watershed for the Taste!

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Celebrate Our 2023 Watershed Champions

The Watershed Champion and Fran Flanigan Awards are special recognition awards for leadership and dedication to cleaner rivers and streams of the Chesapeake Bay. The following awardees have thoughtfully considered how to push the boundaries between science, the environment, and art, and are leaders to be recognized for their exemplary stewardship and profound impacts on the Bay.

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After two years of virtual events, the Taste is back!

The Alliance’s annual Taste celebration is moving upstream in 2022. After two years of virtual events, the Taste will take place in-person at three different venues across the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

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The Taste: Celebrate 50 Years With Keynote Speaker- Lee Failing

Thank you, Lee Failing for being our keynote speaker at “The Taste: Celebrate 50 Years!” A key tenant of the Alliance over the last 50 years has been to work together. That means across the communities, businesses and companies, and conservation groups who live, work, and play in the Chesapeake. No single restoration project, education …

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