A new website shares examples of best management practices that farmers use to produce healthy crops and protect water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Homeowners can apply these same conservation measures to home, lawn, and garden projects.
In response the the program. Governor Martin O’Malley remarked: “Farmers like homeowners and all residents of the Chesapeake Bay watershed play an important role in protecting our soil and water resources. “It is a priority of the O’Malley-Brown Administration to protect the health of the Bay for all to enjoy and to strengthen the family farms that anchor our rural communities and economies, preserve open productive land, and provide a local source of food. Farmers are strong partners in conservation.”
The project was constructed through a Maryland Agricultural Education and Rural Development Assistance Fund grant from the Rural Maryland Council.
For details see: http://www.iwantmarylandsbest.com/
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