Updated 05/10/2012

NRCS provides technical and financial assistance on a voluntary basis to farmers and landowners who want to address natural resource concerns on their land, such as soil erosion and water quality issues.
 

NRCS Announces Water Quality Initiative in Pennsylvania Denise Coleman, State Conservationist, announced the launch of a new National Water Quality Initiative committed to improving three impaired waterways in Pennsylvania. USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will manage the initiative by making nearly $700,000 available to farmers and forest landowners in the selected watersheds.  Click here to read the News Release!

 

Innovative Partnership Helps PA Landowners Protect Threatened and Endangered Species Pennsylvania farmers and forest landowners can now sign-up for assistance to protect and restore habitats for the federally-threatened Bog Turtle and endangered Golden-Winged Warbler (bird) through the Working Lands for Wildlife partnership--a new partnership between USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the Department of Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Click here to learn more about Working Lands for Wildlife

Small Harrisburg Farm Supports Local Community The Joshua Farm is a unique one-acre farm located in the heart of a “food desert” in the city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Owners Kirsten Reinford and Joshua Mortiz grow over 40 varieties of fresh produce for over 45 local families through the use of a seasonal high tunnel, supported by NRCS. The high tunnel (also known as a “hoop house”) makes urban farming possible on small acreage and supplies fresh produce for longer periods to a large city population.

USDA Celebrates 150 Years True to his roots as a frontier farm boy, on May 15, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed legislation to create the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Over the next two months - in the midst of the Civil War - he signed additional legislation that expanded and transformed American farming, including the Homestead Act, and the establishment of the Land Grant agricultural university system. Click here to learn more!

 

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