Agriculture

Audubon at Home Program

National Audubon Society
225 Varick Street, 7th floor
New York, NY 10014

$500,000

Audubon at Home is a partnership with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.  Through the program Audubon provides a needed service to educate people of all ages and backgrounds on the need for small scale conservation and thousands of people a year receive information on how to best improve their backyard, schoolyards, and other types of public and private space.  With this funding, Audubon at Home will be able to provide a full time coordinator to focus on conservation efforts throughout Northern Virginia.

 

Chesapeake Bay Activities

Natural Resources Conservation Service
14th and Independence Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20250

$6,000,000

This funding will help maintain and enhance the current level of service provided by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NCRS) to support Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts.  Providing adequate technical assistance to farmers, landowners, watershed groups and communities is critical to implementing the Farm Bill conservation programs that are the single most vital tool for improving the health of the Chesapeake Bay.

 

Chesapeake Bay Habitat Conservation Program

Ducks Unlimited
34 Defense Street, Suite 200
Annapolis, MD 21401

$500,000

Ducks Unlimited (DU) is the world's largest and most effective wetland and waterfowl conservation organization. DU has identified 1,000 acres of wetland and wetland associated upland habitat on the Eastern Shore of Maryland to be conserved over the next five years. The Eastern Shore of Maryland is of immense importance to the ecological health of the Chesapeake Bay. These refuges provide over 27,000 acres of federally protected wildlife habitat that is open to the public. Conserving this habitat will improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and benefit waterfowl and other wildlife species, including the endangered Delmarva Fox Squirrel and the protected American Bald Eagle.

 

Seeds That Grow Hope

America the Beautiful Fund
2525 North 10th St, Suite 524
Arlington, VA 22201

$200,000

Seeds that Grow Hope will distribute $6,000,000 worth of seeds from their warehouse on Fort Belvoir to people in communities that lack access to food. These seeds will grow fresh food for the hungry in community gardens, churches, public housing projects, WIC programs, food banks and soup kitchens.  The latest report this month on hunger in America shows that there are now 37,000,000 American going hungry, a 46% increase from 2006. With 1 in 8 people in our country not getting enough food, the ‘Seeds that Grow Hope’ can enable those without access to fresh food to grow their own.

 

 

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