Stroud Water Research Center
Approximately 95 percent of a neonicotinoid application washes into soil, streams, lakes, and elsewhere into the surrounding environment.
Watch this full-length version of the documentary showing how local farmers are growing better crops while protecting water quality.
Watch this three-minute trailer of the documentary showing how local farmers are growing better crops while protecting water quality.
Watch this seven-minute version of the documentary showing how local farmers are growing better crops while protecting water quality.
Watch this 16-minute version of the documentary showing how local farmers are growing better crops while protecting water quality.
He’s excited to be working to further understanding of freshwater ecosystems and to improve these systems through research, education, and restoration.
Visitors learned the importance of integrating knowledge about farming practices and water quality and assessing the influence that farming decisions have on soils and streams.
For the last 50 years scientists at Stroud Water Research Center have demonstrated the connection between good land-use practices and clean fresh water, between healthy soil and healthy water.
Soil health management recognizes that the soil is a diverse, dynamic ecosystem that, under proper management, will support healthy crops with fewer inputs.
Supported with a nearly $6 million grant from the William Penn Foundation, the partners begin a new 6-year project to connect farming to cleaner drinking water in the Delaware River Watershed.