The Farm Forest Initiative strives to educate farmers on regenerative agriculture and plants riparian buffers along streams of farmland properties.
A riparian buffer is an area of trees or other vegetation along a stream that prevents pollution from entering the water, provides wildlife habitat, helps reduce erosion of the stream bank, shades and cools the area, serves as a wildlife corridor, and much more.
The trees for the riparian buffer, provided by The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership, were planted along waterways in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, which is one of the top counties in the Susquehanna Watershed to pollute the Chesapeake Bay with agricultural runoff. The goal with this project is to specifically target the source and improve water quality as a result.
Goal
The purpose is to improve the water quality of streams in Lancaster County by educating farmers on regenerative farming and planting riparian buffers along their streams. The goal is to have farmers transition to these practices in order to benefit them economically and the ecosystem as a whole. This education will happen in info sessions, websites, and informative pamphlets. The Farm Forest Initiative also will work to plant riparian buffers along farmer’s streams to help with erosion, pollution, and adding wildlife habitat.
Want to be involved with the Farm Forest Initiative?
Contact Outdoor Echo at OutdoorEchoCo@gmail.com for more information.
