Location: Virginia

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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Request for Bids: Blackwell Park Nature Playground Landscaping

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.

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Agriculture Uncovered: Explore Virginia Ag

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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Thank You to Our Volunteers for Making the 3rd Annual Treelay a Success

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.

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Project Clean Stream Returns for Another Season!

Every year, thousands of volunteers come together to pick up trash from local streams, creeks, rivers, parks, and neighborhoods as part of the Alliance’s Project Clean Stream.

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Thank you for another great Wild & Scenic Film Fest!

Thank you to everyone who joined us from March 4-6 across the watershed for the Alliance’s 5th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival!

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Film Screening: Surf & Turf in Staunton, VA

Join us for an evening with Surf and Turf: A Chesapeake Bay watershed story!

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Treelay Site: Richmond, VA

Join the Treelay, a watershed-wide hands-on volunteer day, and help plant 40 trees at this Virginia site!

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Wild & Scenic Film Festival – VA

Save the date for the 2025 Wild & Scenic Film Festival in VA!

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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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