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 [...]
Category Archives: Groundwater Agricultural News
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 [...]
2009 Regional Envirothon Competition a Success
March 31, 2009 – 1:37 pm
The 2009 Regional Michigan Envirothon competition was held on March 13 at the Nature Center. This fun, team based competition focuses on expanding environmental education inside and outside of the classroom for high schoolers. Local resource professionals provide the student teams with resource materials and share their knowledge about subject areas ranging from [...]