{"id":18796,"date":"2019-03-22T13:58:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T13:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=18796"},"modified":"2019-03-22T13:58:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T13:58:04","slug":"farm-stewardship-program-with-berks-county-conservation-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=18796","title":{"rendered":"Farm Stewardship Program with Berks County Conservation District"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted by Berks County Conservation District<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Berksbeforeandafter-1024x320.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Berksbeforeandafter-1024x320.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Berksbeforeandafter-300x94.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Berksbeforeandafter-768x240.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Berksbeforeandafter.jpg 1929w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption> <em>Before (left) and after pictures of installed BMPs to address resource concerns on a farm operation in the Maiden Creek Watershed. Photos submitted by Berks County Conservation District. <\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Berks\nCounty Conservation District (BCCD) partnered with Stroud Water Research Center\nin January 2015 to administer their Farm Stewardship Program in Berks County.\nThis program is designed to entice farmers to install at least a 35\u2019 wide\nForested Riparian Buffer on all streams on their operation. In turn they receive\nvouchers for $4,000 per acre of installed Forested Riparian Buffer to help\ncover the cost of approved Best Management Practices (BMPs) on their operation.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between\n2015 and 2018, BCCD enrolled 24 sites in the Farm Stewardship program, of which\n22 were farming operations. In three years of the Farm Stewardship Program in\nBerks County, a total of 105 acres of Forested Riparian Buffers were installed.\nresulting in over 57,000 feet of streambank protection covering over 33,000\nfeet of stream, and planting over 8,000 trees and shrubs along streams. Through\nthese cooperators, BCCD had 263 BMPs installed including 44 Plans (Conservation\nPlans, Manure Management Plans, Nutrient Management Plans), 62 Forested-Riparian-Buffer-related\nBMPs, and an additional 157 BMPs on farm operations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Berks-article-on-Farm-Stewardship-Program.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"here (opens in a new tab)\">here<\/a> to read the entire article. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by Berks County Conservation District Berks County Conservation District (BCCD) partnered with Stroud Water Research Center in January 2015 to administer their Farm Stewardship Program in Berks County. This program is designed to entice farmers to install at least a 35\u2019 wide Forested Riparian Buffer on all streams on their operation. In turn they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}