Helping individuals, groups & communities conserve their land and water by providing education, information, workshops and technical assistance.
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Supporting local food producers
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Backyard Habitats
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Local workshops for 2010 for - Springtime Horse Pasure Management
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Landowners in Current Use; What you need to know about logging operations before you cut a tree.
Click on links or scroll down for workshop dates
Questions? Greenall@vermontel.net Office - 802-295-7942 x11
or Suzanne.Greenall@vt.nacdnet.net
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Logging and Clearing of Land
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 ONRCD 2010 Workshops
Current Use
How does it Effect Your Town?
February 10, 2010
Story Hall, West Windsor, VT
Sharon Murray - Front Porch Community Planning - speaker
802-484-7212 for directions
Sponsored by: West Windsor Planning Commission
Water Quality
Ottauquechee and Black River Watershed
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
7-8:30 PM
Billings Farm & Museum
Route 12 and River Road
Woodstock, VT
Participants help develop stategies to improve local waters and water resources. If you would like to insure that your voice is heard, this is an important meeting to attend.
Cider and local snacks provided.
Sylvia Harris 802-254-5323 x 10
Sponsored by; ONRCD, Two-Rivers and Southern Windsor County Planning Commission,
Ottauquechee River Group,Woodstock Area Agricultural Forum and the Windsor County Farm Bureau
Springtime Horse Pasture Management
March 20,2010
10-12 AM
Evergreen Veterinary Clinic, West Windsor, VT
Jenny Kimbery - speaker
Dr. Heather Hoyns - speaker
What does one do with all of that thawing manure?
Designing pastures to avoid mud, muck, manure!
How to turn that manure into pasture food
Learn how to soil test - kits available
Keeping your pastures healthy
Local food snacks provided
Sponsored by; ONRCD
Contact Sue Greenall
Greenall@vermontel.net
802-295-7942 x 11
What Every Landowner Should Know Before Cutting a Tree
How the current use program benefits you and your land
April TBA
Educate yourself as to the options available to landowners, foresters and loggers
The United Nations has declared 2011 The Year of the Forest
Soil test for your garden or pastures
Available at the ONRCD office
28 Farmvu Drive, WRJ, VT (by the post office)
drop by or call and we will be happy to give you a kit
Backyard Habitats - Rain Gardens
Interested in learning more?
Contact us and we will direct you to a qualified speaker for your group
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ONRCD and its partner organizations offer workshops
throughout the year on a variety of interesting topics
Japanese Knotweed workshop - 2008
Planting seedlings in our nursery - 2009
Woodstock "Save the World Kids" assisting
Buffer Planting Project - 2009
Billings Farm Buffer Planting Why Stabalize a River Bank?
Local foods are always part of our programs
Water Basin 10 Planning Session
Important information regarding the water quality of the
Ottauquechee River and tributaries
Be involved in the water quality in your area!
Contact us to set up a meeting in your area about what should be done to keep
your water quality the best it can be.
Groundwater Source Protection for Water Quality Planning
The EPA-approved 2008 303d list of impaired waters and the state’s 2008 list ofwaters outside the scope of 303d have been posted on the WQD home web page. The lists also appear on the planning home page in a similar location as well.
http://www.vtwaterquality.org/planning/docs/pl_2008.303d_Final.pdf
2008 EPA-approved 303d List of Impaired Waters
http://www.vtwaterquality.org/planning/docs/pl_2008.State_Lists_Final.pdf
2008 Final Listings of Waters Outside the Scope of 303d
http://www.vtwaterquality.org/planning/htm/pl_basin10.htm
Basin 10 website for more information
For direct information
Marie Levesque Caduto
Watershed CoordinatorANR / Dept. of Environmental Conservation
100 Mineral Street, Suite 303
Springfield , VT 05156-3168
Ph: 802-885-8958
Fax: 802-885-8890
Marie.Caduto@state.vt.us
Join us.....
Ottauquechee Natural Resources Conservation District is looking for a few good people to join us
in our efforts to keep our environment the best it can be.
Who are we looking for ?
A person interesting in their surroundings
Ability to attend monthly meetings
Someone who wants to make a difference
An interest in being heard
Natural Resources Conservation Service outreach during the past year to beginning and limited resource producers and to previously underserved groups through local groups such as ONRCD has resulted in private working lands being more productive, the environment growing healthier, and countless communities are safer and more economically viable. Dave White NRCS chief
We are proud of the many projects we have been involved with that make living in this area a better place.
Be proud with us!
Annual Report see what we have been doing and are planning to do!
Hartford Conservation Commission Newsletter
vernal poolsforest fragmentation
riparian buffer
wildlife habitat
invasive weeds
invasive landscaping plants
recommended plants
HCCnewsletter '09
Miss one?
We can still get you the information
Manure Management Workshop
Manure storage, land application, composting, manure marketing, and Vermont's Accepted Agricultural Practices.
Specifics for all livestock will be addressed.
Free manure management guide & resource toolkit.
Technical assistance in manure management also available at no cost.
Contact Athena at (802) 254-3636 or athena@nerc.org or
Sylvia at (802) 254-5323 x105 sylvia.harris@vt.nacdnet.net to register.
(Partner Workshop)
Was your New Year's Resolution to better understand
the composting process and become a more effective on-farm composter?
The UVM Center for Sustainable Agriculture, with the partnership of the Highfields Institute and VTC, is sponsoring a pre-conference On-Farm Composting Intensive for the upcoming Grazing Conference. Focus will be on site id, recipe development, pile monitoring and management.Workshop will include both classroom components and on-site demonstrations and activities.
links to workshops, more info, online reg, etc.
http://www.uvm.edu/~pasture/?Page=2009conference.html
http://www.uvm.edu/~pasture/?Page=2009pcworkshops.html
Contact Jenn Colby, Conference Coordinator, at
(802) 656-0858, jcolby@uvm.edu
Land For Good’s ONLINE TUTORIAL on FARM LEASING is now available.
Access to farmland is one of the biggest challenges for new farmers. For many, leasing may be an effective strategy. Leases can provide affordable, flexible and secure access to farms, land, and buildings.Find out about leases and leasing -- what’s in a lease, types of leases and how to negotiate a good lease.
Four short, easy and informative modules will give you basic information, lease examples and lots of linked resources.
Upon completing the tutorial you are eligible for free technical assistance related to leasing. You will receive details via email.
Land For Good is a nonprofit organization specializing in working land. We work with farmers, landowners and communities on farmland access, tenure and succession.
Funding for this project was provided by the Northeast Center for Risk Management Education
the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
Visit www.landforgood.org/leasing/online.php to take this free tutorial.
Food Scrap Reduction Program
Treat food scraps as a resource, not a waste
Food scraps can be a valuable source of nutrition for animals as feed and the soil as compost
Diverting food scraps from the landfill conserves landfill space and reduces green house gas emissions
Food scraps from local restaurants to farms as animal feed for chickens.
Project Update - June 2009
SUMMER VOLUME
800lbs per day x 7 days = 2.8 tons per week x 4 weeks = 11.2 tons per month of food NOT in our landfill
Chickens can eat most everything, they love vegetables and breads.
To learn more about this project go to: Food Scrap Reduction Project
Articles of interest on Conservation
Brochures and Additional Information
Smooth Bedstraw (Galium mollugo)*
Smooth bedstraw is a weed that is rapidly becoming a problem in local pastures and hay fields. It is a non native plant that under less than ideal growing conditions and cutting or grazing management can quickly crowd out native crop plants. See factsheet for more details for combatting this pest.
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