Watershed Map

Chesapeake Bay Watershed – Dairy cows are the source of two products: milk and manure. At Kurtland Farms, manure is a carefully managed resource that grows crops on 250 acres. It’s important to keep those manure nutrients on the fields rather than washing off the land during storms, so practices such as manure injection, cover crops, and buffers are used to benefit both the farm and the environment. Even runoff from barn rooftops is carefully managed!

Chesapeake Bay Watershed – On 700 acres just a mile from the Susquehansna River, Meadow-Vista Dairy keeps soil and nutrients on the fields instead of washing off during storms. They also recycle manure, water and sand, practice energy conservation, and use renewable energy. Stream buffers further protect local waterways.

Chesapeake Watershed – On Reinford Farms, environmentally sensitive areas are protected and food waste and cow manure are converted to renewable energy. By not disturbing the soil used to grow crops and keeping vegetation in the fields year-round, the farm minimizes soil erosion and nutrient runoff.

Just a few miles from the Chesapeake Bay on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the owners of Fair Hill Farms take seriously their role as environmental stewards. They recycle sand, water, and manure and use grass waterways and a bioreactor helps to keep ground and surface water clean.

Located in the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay watershed—nearly 250 miles away from the Bay, E-Z Acres uses a combination of well monitoring, riparian buffers, careful nutrient management and the “Taj Mahal of manure storage” to protect drinking water and surface water quality.

The New York City watershed provides 1.3 billion gallons to 9 million New Yorkers each day. Using practices like manure storage, cover crops, and riparian buffers, Albano Farms works with key partners to ensure that water stays clean.

Roughly 40 minutes south of Rochester, NY, Noblehurst Farms carefully manages manure to maximize its use as a crop fertilizer and keep it where it needs to be—on fields and in the soil, rather than washed into local streams. The farm also plays a special role in reducing food waste while generating renewable energy.

The Susquehanna River provides half of the freshwater entering the Chesapeake Bay. Worth the Wait Farms uses cover crops, no till, and other practices to help keep the soil healthy and the water clean.

New York City’s exceptional drinking water doesn’t come by accident. Upstream dairy operations like Clark Farms play essential roles in making this possible. The farm uses several techniques, including manure management, soil testing, stream buffers, and minimal soil disturbance to achieve environmental and economic goals.

The Genesee River journeys 157 miles northward from its origin in Potter County, PA, to Rochester, NY. In addition to producing quality milk, HaR-Go Farms uses conservation practices like manure injection, cover crops, pasture management, and stream buffers to ensure the river remains an environmental, recreational, and economic asset.