80th Anniversary

You may have noticed our newsletter looks a little different, but for good reason. We are proud to be celebrating our 80th anniversary this month. Founded on Feb. 16, 1944, SCD has a long history of providing technical and financial assistance to cooperating landowners. Conservation practices improve soil health, wildlife habitat, and water quality throughout Sussex County.

Note: Some things never change, do you know what it is?

Meet our Cooperators

SCD Cooperators are your friends and neighbors, people who care about protecting and improving land and water resources.

Our Cooperators are people just like you.

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Ag Updates

After months of planning, the 2024 Delmarva Soil Summit took place on Feb. 6 and 7, in Salisbury, MD. Shout out to the SCD staff who helped make the event a success!

Delmarva Soil convention highlights sustainable farming - 47abc

SALISBURY, Md. - The Delmarva Soil convention kicked off Tuesday, at the Wicomico Youth and Civic Center. The event focused on giving farmers better tools to both improve and measure soil health. It also highlighted the impacts that those practices can have on crops, groundwater, and the health of surrounding communities.

2024 Conservation Stewardship Award

Winners Announced

SCD would like to thank each organization that submitted an entry for the 2024 Conservation Stewardship Award. A panel of judges reviewed 22 entries across seven categories.

The panel was comprised of SCD staff and a board member along with representatives from the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Delaware Department of Agriculture, Delaware Center for the Inland Bays, and the Sussex Preservation Coalition.

The 2024 Conservation Stewardship Award Winners are:

Design Team: Sussex County Engineering

Developer: Carl M. Freeman Companies

Green Conservation: Kinsley Construction, Inc.

HOA: Sawgrass

Home Builder: Beazer

Project Manager: Michael McClintock

Site Contractor (Commercial): Corrado Construction Co.

Site Contractor (Residential): Kinsley Construction, Inc.

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Partner News

Wetland easement workshop set for March 19

The workshop will help Delaware landowners learn more about the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Wetland Reserve Easement (WRE) program and the benefits of restoring proper wetland function in their wet woods or wet, unproductive crop fields while protecting the land from development.