Maine Association of Conservation Districts News

Thanks to the generosity of a Dover-Foxcroft couple the Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District now owns 115 acres of land on Route 6 and 16. Stephen and Elaine Law have donated their family land to the PCSWCD. This 115-acre parcel has been owned by the Laws’ family since 1945 and is the [...]

The 2009 Maine Farm Days will be on Friday and Saturday, August 21st and 22nd at the Barker Farm. Your can learn more at www.androscogginswcd.net by clicking on Maine Farm Days (MFD) link on the home page. Go to the above website and download a MFD exhibitor or vendor contract/agreement, a brochure, or the map [...]

FARMINGTON – Farmers, greenhouse operators, municipal officials and others interested in the best way to handle, bale and store agricultural plastics should attend an Agricultural Plastic Recycling workshop being hosted by Franklin County Soil & Water Conservation District on Tuesday, April 14.
The Recycling Ag Plastics Workshop will be held from 9:30 to 2:30 pm at [...]

Conservation and sustainability have been getting a lot of attention in the news lately. People are being constantly warned of new threats from global climate change and the growing need to live more sustainably. With the heated discussions surrounding hybrids; biofuels; wind power and the like, it can be easy to forget there cheaper and [...]

At the Maine Association of Conservation Districts Annual Meeting, held during the first week of December at the Black Bear Inn in Orono, District supervisors elected a new Executive Board. The new Executive Board is as follows:

President – Dan LaBrie, from St. John Valley SWCD, who operates a family potato farm in St. Agatha.
Vice President [...]