Category: Wake SWCD (Page 8 of 12)

Support Wake Soil and Water Conservation District

December 22, 2012 / admin

Season’s Greetings,

The Mission of the Friends of Wake SWCD is to Promote awareness and Support for the work of the District.

Your 2012 support has helped:

sponsor the Raleigh Downtown Farmers Market
prepare the Wake County high school Envirothon team place third in the national competition,
honor the Wake SWCD poster contest winners,
initiate the first in the nation Envirothon Braille Project
present the 47th annual Conservation Awards to farmers, land stewards, schools, teachers, environmental educators, and supporters of farmland, forestland and conservation in Wake County.

Join us as we begin 2013 with the award winning Keeping the Farm workshop in January.

Please support the District by joining or renewing your membership with the Friends of Wake SWCD.
Postmarking your donation by Dec 31, 2012, allows you to claim the charitable donation for your 2012 taxes.

Join us. Donate today. Use the attached form, or download the same membership/donation form at the Friends of the District website.

Best wishes for a healthy, peaceful, and prosperous new year.

The Board of Directors of the
Friends of Wake Soil and Water Conservation District

donate2012.pdf

Agriculture – a big part of Wake County

December 18, 2012 / admin

from:
Eastern Wake News

Knightdale farm hosted annual Farm City Day

When people envision Wake County, they may picture one of the major universities, or they may think of the teaching hospitals and renowned research centers. Typically they will not think of agriculture, even though it is a huge industry in the county. The Wake County Farm Bureau has set out to change this pattern of thought and educate citizens on the interdependence of rural and urban populations.

During this year’s Farm City Day Jackie Thompson, President of Wake County Farm Bureau commended members of the Wake Future Farmers America Federation for their hard work and dedication to agriculture.

Raleigh urban agriculture needs your help!

December 5, 2012 / admin

the following is a request from the

Raleigh Urban Ag Work Group, an informal coalition of urban ag and local food activists and advocates. We include members of Advocates for Health in Action, Interfaith Food Shuttle, the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, NC Cooperative Extension, Raleigh City Farm, Sixth Sun, and others. They came together over the summer in response to incomplete proposals for urban ag zoning for Raleigh.

They are working to make community agriculture possible within Raleigh’s Unified Development Code. Continue reading

Raleigh city council sending urban agriculture topic back to committee

November 26, 2012 / admin

Raleigh City Council, citing the 400+ signatures they received this morning as well as numerous individual calls and emails, has decided to put the topic of Community Gardens and Urban Agriculture back into committee! Each of our petition points has been met. I’m incredibly excited and humbled to have you on our side, both in the last few days and for the challenges of the next few weeks.

What that means? Planning will take a closer look at the zoning language for urban agriculture, and there will be a public hearing on the topic. The hearing will probably be the second week of December. I will keep you all posted on any important dates, in case you want to stay involved.

I will have follow-ups about the hearing, how to participate, and ways the Raleigh urban ag movement can continue beyond the adoption of good zoning!

Thanks for your support. We topped out with 501 signatures in 5 days!

BIG SWEEP results

November 14, 2012 / admin

For 26 seasons, Wake Soil and Water Conservation District has organized and hosted National Big Sweep.

This year over 1000 volunteers removed 18,881 pounds of debris from 24 Wake County watersheds!

The Lake Wheeler Big Sweep team rescued a an entangled
bird!. Good job Wake SWCD volunteers!

: st davids fall 2012 pictures mentos clean sweep 007

: crabtree creek art kayaking 2 fall 2012

: crabtree creek blue heron fall 2012

Please vote today, and, the Dust Bowl Premieres November 18 and 19 on PBS

November 6, 2012 / admin

Understand our history, learn from our errors, work to never let our natural resources and our quality topsoil ever fly away from us again! Continue reading

Where will you volunteer…

August 24, 2012 / admin

to help clean up Wake’s waterways?

Wake SWCD leads the way with organizing and galvanizing 100’s of volunteers each year to clean up Wake County Waterways during Big Sweep.

See the pdf below for the 21 sites in Wake County that SWCD is assisting with Big Sweep. This year, Big Sweep’s are happening on Saturdays from Sept 22 – Oct 27.

Where will you volunteer?

2012 FALL BIG SWEEP wake county sites

Yard Map

August 16, 2012 / admin

from:

Wild West: gardening for wildlife in the Avent West neighborhood, Raleigh, NC

YardMap

Posted on August 16, 2012 | 1 Comment

You may remember us talking about YardMap

http://content.yardmap.org/

It seems it may be up and running now.

What’s a yardmap?

yardmap

YardMap is a citizen science project designed to cultivate a richer understanding of bird habitat, for both professional scientists and people concerned with their local environments.