Most of you are aware of the hard work of our farming neighbors to overcome hail, wind, drought, pests and low prices, just to put food on our tables. However, it is likely that few of you are familiar with the efforts they make to keep our environment and food healthy. The GTCD has been [...]
Category Archives: Groundwater Agricultural Articles
Local Farmers Protecting the Environment & Us
February 2, 2010 – 3:45 pm
Most of you are aware of the hard work of our farming neighbors to overcome, hail, wind, drought, pests and low prices, just to put food on our tables. However, it is likely that few of you are familiar with the efforts they make to keep our environment and food healthy. The Grand [...]
Michigan Envirothon Teams Needed
January 8, 2010 – 11:30 am
The Michigan Envirothon is a statewide environmental education competition designed to inspire environmental stewardship in Michigan’s high school students. It is team based and uses the outdoors as a classroom. Teams of five students and up to four alternate members utilize resource materials and local resource professionals to address natural resources including: Agriculture, [...]
District Program assists NW Michigan Grape Growers
September 3, 2009 – 10:49 am
The Grand Traverse Conservation District has housed the Michigan Groundwater Stewardship Program since its inception in 1996. The program assists pesticide and fertilizer users with proper use and disposal of these products. The program has helped many local growers since that time.
A new sustainability tool has been created by the National Grape Cooperative [...]
GTCD hosts Natural Resources Day for TC Chambers’ Leadership Grand Traverse Program
May 29, 2009 – 2:40 pm
Lew Coulter, Rebecca Teahen, and Dan Busby are all Leadership Grand Traverse (LGT) Alumni, a program run by the Traverse City Chamber of Commerce. One thing many LGT Alumni though was missing was a day devoted to discuss our Natural Resources and Agriculture in our region. A few years ago, Doug Lucianni asked [...]
MAEAP Program Helps Farmers
November 21, 2008 – 4:59 pm
Through regular communications with local farmers, the MAEAP (Michigan Agricultural Environmental Assurance Program) verification program has helped agricultural producers ensure that they are following environmentally sound practices.
“The MAEAP verification was very important to us, because the entire process enabled us to assure the general public that we are striving to do things correctly while maintaining [...]
Rolling Stone Keyboardist Calls Out to Teachers to Increase Nature Education
November 1, 2008 – 12:10 pm
At a recent Ag in the Classroom conference in Costa Mesa, California; Rolling Stone keyboardist, Chuck Leavell emphasized the importance of agriculture and nature education in today's educational institutions. Leavell, also a Georgia tree farmer, has written a book called The Tree Farmer which is the 2007 American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture Book of [...]