The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation invites you to join us for the 2022-23 watershed-wide

Chesapeake Bay Agriculture Networking Forum and Listening Sessions starting November 8.

The Forum brings together NFWF grantees, partners, and practitioners in agricultural conservation from across the region to discuss emerging trends and topics, network and share ideas, and inform what’s next in our collective efforts towards greater agricultural sustainability.

This year’s Forum will be delivered virtually through a series of focused, crowd sourced sessions.

We’ve identified eight important, emerging topics related to our shared work, framed around key questions that we’re seeking your help in answering.

For each session, NFWF will host a series of 5–15-minute flash talks that help answer, at least in part, each key question.

After hearing from selected presentations, participants will then have the opportunity for loosely structured networking and discussion on each topic, with the goal of leaving each session with new understanding, ideas, and partners to help tackle these shared challenges.

Listening Sessions

-- November 8: Advancing priority WIP strategies for the agricultural sector

-- November 15: Advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in agricultural sustainability efforts

-- November 17: Coordinating with federal infrastructure funding for agricultural conservation

-- December 13: Enhancing agricultural conservation through collaboration and partnerships

-- December 15: Advancing partnerships with cooperatives, aggregators, and supply chain stakeholders

-- January 10: Advancing regenerative and climate-smart agriculture

-- January 12: Integrating wetlands in agricultural landscapes

-- January 24: Advancing agricultural conservation through a social science lens

Click Here for the details. Registration is free but space is limited. You must register for each session separately to attend.

Questions should be directed to Joe Toolan, Manager of Chesapeake Bay Programs at NFWF: joe.toolan@nfwf.org.

For more information, visit the NFWF Chesapeake Bay Agriculture Networking Forum and Listening Sessions webpage.

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-- EPA: Most States, Including Pennsylvania, Did Not Meet 2-Year Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Milestones [PaEN]

-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation 2022 State Of The Chesapeake Blueprint Report Finds Restoration Efforts Are Off Track  [PaEN]

-- DEP Provides PA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Healthy Waters Partnership Update  [PaEN]

-- DEP Now Accepting Applications For Small Business Advantage Grants For Natural Resource Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Pollution Prevention Projects  [PaEN]

-- Lancaster County Community Foundation Announce More Than $100,000 In Lancaster Clean Water Fund Grants  [PaEN]

-- Bay Journal: Chesapeake Bay States To Get Millions For Climate-Smart Farm Practices -- By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal  [PaEN]

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-- Land Trust Alliance Magazine Highlights Efforts Along PA's Kittatinny Ridge To Document The Economic Benefits Of Land Conservation - By Marina Shauffler [PaEN]

-- Rodale Institute: Celebrating 75 Years Of Organic Leadership  [PaEN]

[Posted: October 4, 2022]

10/10/2022