CSWCD Spring 2025 Newsletter published

A quick note about our February 10th Conservation Breakfast Event.

Join us at the Providence Forge Community Center on February 10 for our Annual Conservation Event.

DCR hosted an educational field day at Brandon Farms, led by our senior agricultural conservation specialist, Robert Waring. Read more.

CSWCD Winter 2024 Newsletter published

I spent the afternoon with several members of the Historic Rivers Master Naturalists group looking for dragonflies and damselflies in Colby

The results of the First Annual Colonial World Nature Conservation Day BioBlitz in July 2024.

A short note summarizing the first annual Colonial World Nature Conservation Day BioBlitz at New Quarter Park.

The first issue of our new newsletter is filled with useful information that has been contributed by all of the CSWCD staff.

Join us for the Colonial World Nature Conservation Day BioBlitz! July 20, 2024 New Quarter Park 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Colonial Soil and Water Conservation District invites you to join us at the Quinton Community Center on February 26th for our Annual Spring

A summary of our day at the 4th Annual Bugfest in September 2023.

The Colonial Soil and Water Conservation District’s (CSWCD) First Annual Photo Contest begins October 1, 2023, and ends November 30, 2023.

Come visit us at BugFest the Saturday, 30 September.

819/2023 - Turfgrass experts from Virginia Tech will provide presentations about lawn management, weed control and prevention, and more!

In light of the temps forecasted for this weekend, and out of concern for volunteer & participant safety, we've postponed the BioBlitz.

Colonial SWCD is organizing a BioBlitz at York River State Park to celebrate World Nature Conservation Day on 29 July - don't miss it!

First day of the Colonial Pollinator Week BioBlitz kicks of with a Butterfly Scavenger Hunt.

Colonial Pollinator Week BioBlitz 19 - 25 June - Pollinator Week 2023

For Earth Day 2023 Emma Rich, Bob Winters, and I were lucky enough to spend the afternoon at the Ford's Colony Earth Day celebration. It...