OCEAN COUNTY SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICT PROGRAMS, PROJECTS & EVENTS | |
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Fall Festival
Common Grounds Community Garden
Sunday, November 3rd, 1:30-4:00pm
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Join OCSCD along with many other Barnegat Bay watershed partners at the Common Grounds Community Garden for their annual Fall Festival, on Sunday, November 3, 1:30pm-4:00pm, at the John F. Patrick Sports Complex, Lakewood.
OCSCD is a proud sponsor of this event!
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Barnegat Bay
Environmental Educators Roundtable
Save the Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2025
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Join Ocean County Soil Conservation District on Wednesday, April 16, for our 28th Annual Barnegat Bay Environmental Educators Roundtable, located at the Lighthouse Center for Natural Resource Education, Waretown. Each year environmental organizations, agencies and groups from around the watershed come together to provide this much anticipated Teachers Professional Development event.
This year's theme is: Our Precious Natural Resources: Considering Conservation, Climate and Community. The Environmental Educators Roundtable features an Open House, Light Dinner, Workshops, Keynote, Dessert and Door Prizes. We hope you will join us! Visit our website to view past Environmental Educators Roundtable events. For more information contact Becky Laboy, Education Outreach Coordinator, OCSCD.
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Local Working Group
Coming Next Year, 2025!
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Ocean County Soil Conservation District requests your participation in our anticipated Local Working Group to identify important natural resource issues, concerns and opportunities. OCSCD seeks to provide technical information to help direct technical and financial resources for locally led conservation programs and efforts within Ocean County. | |
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Your insights and input are valued and will be appreciated. We anticipate putting a date on the calendar for early 2025. We hope you will join us! For more information, please email Becky Laboy, Education Outreach Coordinator, OCSCD. | |
Staff from Ocean County Soil Conservation District and Cape-Atlantic Soil Conservation District partake in a fall spat count as part of the COASTAL project, a multi-faceted, partner-driven farming for restoration project. Fall spat counts took place in October, to ensure criteria has been met including the number of live oysters and the size of live oysters. Reef planting of the spat on shell is scheduled for November at Stockton University's Mill Creek and Tuckerton Reefs. | |
Pictured above from L to R: Kristin Adams (OCSCD/NRCS), Riley Blankenship (CASCD/NRCS), Georgie Lennon (OCSCD) & Sean Yeats (OCSCD) during fall spat count. | |
As the summer faded into fall, NJ Secretary of Agriculture, Ed Wengryn and approximately 40 legislators and staff from NJ Department of Agriculture and other agriculture and conservation organizations attended a NJ Aquaculture tour. Parsons Seafood and the Barnegat Oyster Collective hosted the tour, which sought to provide information about NJ's aquaculture industry, its economic value and importance to the natural resources along the state's coast. In attendance were Frank Minch, NJ Department of Agriculture, Division Director for the the Division of Agricultural and Natural Resources; and Christine Raabe, District Director along with Kristin Adams, Conservation Specialist from the Ocean County Soil Conservation District. | |
Pictured above: Christine Raabe, Ocean County Soil Conservation District, District Director and Frank Minch, NJ Department of Agriculture, Division Director for the Division of Agricultural and Natural Resources, attend an aquaculture tour. | |
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New Jersey Bay Islands Initiative
Wins Award at the 2024 NERRS Film Festival
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In 2024 Ocean County Soil Conservation District celebrates our 72nd year. We remain committed to building and sustaining a conservation legacy by working with our partners and constituents to conserve, protect and restore our soil, water and natural resources by providing technical assistance, implementing restoration projects, and most importantly through education. | | | | |
