Events

Healthy soil is critical for healthy, productive crops. This workshop willprovide growers with practice guidance to address their soil healthconcerns, and to build healthier soils for long-term success. Topics willinclude cover cropping, farming in clay, and accessing state and federalresources to confront soil challenges. This event will also feature a farmerpanel discussing soil health strategies...

Date: July 31, 2024 - August 29, 2024Event Type: Public Comment, Public Meeting/Hearing In 2021, the Maine Legislature established the Maine Healthy Soils Program within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (MRS Title 12, Chapter 7). The Maine Healthy Soils Fund was established within this chapter to carry out the responsibilities outlined in the chapter. These...

Please join the SASWCD and partners for an upcoming livestock field day at Moosehead Farm and Ranch in Smyrna Thursday, August 29 from 10-3. Speakers will cover a range of grazing-related management and soil quality topics and the day will finish with Q&A with speaker panel, all of whom raise grass-fed and finished livestock. 3.5...