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13 Nov PEI AWP Steering Committee Conducts Fall Tour to Various Projects

Posted at 12:46h in News

On Friday, November 8, 2024, members of the AgriWatershed Partnership Steering Committee attended a tour of 5 on-farm projects supported by the PEI AgriWatershed Partnership. The first project visited was a combination field trial of a streambank stabilization technique called a vegetated mechanically stabilized embankment...

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11 Jul PEI AgriWatershed Partnership continues its support for blight spore monitoring for 2024 with the help of local watershed groups and the EPAA

Posted at 11:03h in Uncategorized

The PEI AgriWatershed Partnership is supporting the Blight Spore Monitoring Program again for 2024. Local Watershed Groups and the East Prince Agri-Environmental Association continue to participate with spore trap collection. 2024 marks the second year the PEI AgriWatershed Partnership is cooperating with the PEI Potato...

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06 Jul Local Watershed Groups Cooperating with PEI Potato Board on 2023 Blight Spore Monitoring Project

Posted at 09:38h in News

For the 2023 growing season, the PEI AgriWatershed Partnership is funding a Late Blight Spore Monitoring Project in cooperation with the PEI Potato Board and a number of local watershed groups. Late Blight is a serious challenge to potato production on PEI. The disease, caused by...

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12 Jan 2022 AWP Beneficial Management Practices Support Program now accepting applications.

Posted at 10:16h in Uncategorized

The 2022 PEI AgriWatershed Partnership Beneficial Management Practices Support Program is accepting application through to February 28, 2022. Landowners/farmers , do you have an agricultural site near a watercourse or wetland you would like to do runoff control work on? Watershed groups - do you have...

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14 Nov Field Tour at AWP BMP Project

Posted at 11:57h in News

Recently, members of the Steering Committee of the AgriWatershed Partnership and board members from the Southeast Environmental Association attended a field tour of one of the on-farm projects supported by the PEI AgriWatershed Partnership under the 2021 BMP Support Program. The project, undertaken by MacAulay...

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31 Aug Update on 2021 AWP BMP Projects

Posted at 14:11h in Uncategorized

At an AgriWatershed Partnership project on the Montague River, the South East Environmental Association are cooperating with local farmers - GWR Farms Ltd. on a project aimed at reducing runoff into the Montague River. When completed, the project will feature a grassed waterway in the...

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05 Jul Work Progressing on AgriWatershed Partnership BMP Support Program Projects.

Posted at 13:22h in News

Fieldwork has begun on the 2021 AWP BMP support program projects. In the Montague River watershed, William Visser from GWR Farms and Jackie Bourgeois from the Southeastern Environmental Association (SEA) along with Tobin Stetson, P.Eng. , Soil & Water Engineer with the PEI Department of...

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07 Apr PEI AgriWatershed Partnership Supporting 5 Land Management BMP Projects for 2021

Posted at 08:51h in News, Uncategorized

The PEI AgriWatershed Partnership is supporting 5 land management BMP Projects for the 2021 field season. The projects are distributed across all 3 counties and were selected as the top 5 ranked projects in terms of priority for runoff management by members of the AgriWatershed...

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05 Jan AgriWatershed Partnership Launches BMP Support Program for the 2021 Growing Season

Posted at 09:00h in News

The AgriWatershed Partnership is launching a BMP Support program for the 2021 growing season. The program aims to assist farmers/landowners institute soil conservation best management practices on fields within 200 metres of a designated watercourse or wetland. For approved projects, eligible costs incurred will be rebated...

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10 Dec Ministers visit AgriWatershed Partnership Land Management Demonstration Project

Posted at 09:00h in News

Recently, the Minister of Agriculture and Land, the Hon. Bloyce Thompson and the Minister of Environment Water & Climate Change, the Hon. Natalie Jameson, toured one of the AgriWatershed Partnership’s land management demonstration sites at Uigg and heard first hand from both the watershed coordinator...

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