Lawrence County Soil & Water Conservation District

Get Involved With Your SWCD

Volunteer - Help your county SWCD with legislative awareness programs for local, state and federal officials, conservation programs, urban and agricultural BMPs (Best Management Practices) field days, fundraising, tree sales, youth and adult edu-cation events or surveying.

Serve as a Supervisor - Represent your community on the county SWCD board as a natural resource decision maker. Identify local soil and water conservation issues and develop SWCD programs that provide solutions to these issues.

Serve as an Associate Supervisor - Attend monthly board meetings and provide input to the SWCD board on local soil and water conservation issues and programs.

LAWRENCE COUNTY SWCD PROMOTES SOIL AND WATER STEWARDSHIP WEEK

   As a part of the Lawrence County Community for 55 years, the Lawrence County Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) wants to remind you that each of us has a connection to natural resources. The National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD) is celebrating the 57th year of Stewardship week April 29 � May 6, 2012. The 2012 Stewardship Week is themed �Soil to Spoon.� Soil is the starting foundation of all of the food we eat.

             Marsha Ralston acts as the District Coordinator and Whitney Baldwin is the Technician/Educator for Lawrence County SWCD. The Lawrence County SWCD is dedicated to provide assistance, education, and technical service to the land users of Lawrence County in conserving soil, water, and related resources.

           During Stewardship Week, Lawrence County SWCD will provide Soil to Spoon education programs to students in both school systems in the county on a first come first serve basis. All 3rd graders in Lawrence County will receive Soil to Spoon activity booklets. Both public libraries will receive Soil to Spoon bookmarks to handout. A Soil to Spoon display will hang in the SWCD office located in the USDA Service Center.

�Making the connection back to the soil, where our food gets its start is so important,� says Lawrence County SWCD Coordinator Marsha Ralston.� The next time you sit down to a meal, take a minute to think about where your food came from, and the farmers and ranchers who helped produce it,� As they work to produce food for the growing population, today�s farmers and ranchers are dedicated to using responsible land-management practices to ensure a sustainable food supply and healthy land and soil for future generations.

              Lawrence County SWCD is a member of the National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD) which oversees the Stewardship Week program. Stewardship Week is one of the largest national annual programs to promote conservation. NACD represents the nation�s 3,000 conservation districts, which were established to encourage resource conservation across the country.

             For more information about Stewardship Week and conservation, contact Lawrence County SWCD at 812- 279-8117, ext. 3 or on their website at lawrencecountyswcd.org . Additional information about the Soil to Spoon project and other natural resource education is available on the NACD website at www.nacdnet.org/education/resources/.