11/22/2024
So, most of my posts are updates about the horses and their success. I myself, tend to shy away from bragging about my own accomplishments.
Last month, I was honored to be awarded the Anne Arundel County Conservationist of the year. We worked with Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Maryland Department of Agriculture, Anne Arundel Soil Conservation District, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Through a number of cost sharing and grant programs, we’ve been able to install automatic waterers in all our fields, added heavy use areas around all the gates, reseeded all fields, and implement a rotational grazing program. We also built and hung birdhouses to attract native species, and some of them even had nests this year!
We’re not stopping there, we hope to add more plans for wildlife habitat and to better manage our horses while protecting the ecosystem.
I encourage any stable to contact their local soil conservation district. You can pick and choose programs that would work for your farm. Many of which come with grants or cost sharing incentives. I wouldn’t have been able to afford putting automatic waterers in all my fields at once without these programs. Who knows, maybe you could be recognized next year!
