Indiana County Conservation District

The Pennsylvania Agricultural Business Development Center, funded through Governor Tom Wolf’s #PAFarmBill, is offering ag businesses and aspiring ag entrepreneu...rs a series of business planning and marketing workshops through a partnership with the Pennsylvania Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) during the virtual 2021 Pennsylvania Farm Show. The virtual workshops will focus on providing support for sound business planning, efficient transitions of farm ownership, strategic expansion, diversification, and building a team of financial and technical expertise as a resource for Pennsylvania farmers. More info & links to register: https://bit.ly/3pW0d7S

We are starting a new series of weekly posts that will feature a term in conservation vocabulary. Here is our first installment: WATERSHED. A watershed is a region or area bounded peripherally by a divide and draining ultimately to a particular watercourse or body of water. If that sounds complicated, this video makes it simple. ... #conservationwordoftheweek See more

At the site of the most recent tree planting there was so much water it was bubbling up from the ground! This site is upstream from an impaired waterway. Slowing down and sponging up the water with a riparian buffer will help prevent the siltation that is damaging the creek.

Here is our first quarterly newsletter!