Conservation Practices

Discover how stream health is measured through hands-on learning in flow, water quality, erosion, and sediment, with live demonstrations at a local stream site.

Explore natural land management with the Lancaster Conservancy at Tap Talks. Learn restoration strategies while enjoying local brews, food, and trivia. Free event; preregistration recommended.

A Center for Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training article about grassed waterways.

Connect with over 200 conservation professionals at ACAP Ag Conservation Con to grow skills, share ideas, and advance agricultural conservation across Pennsylvania.

During the spring, when regular precipitation keeps soils moist, it is important to monitor your grazing to avoid soil compaction, which can reduce the productivity and environmental functions of your fields.

Learn the basics of farm equipment, including identification, use, and calibration, and how equipment supports conservation and best management practices across agricultural systems.

These videos provide basic information on high tunnel structures and pointers for their installation.

Learn low-impact outdoor ethics with Leave No Trace, gain practical skills to protect natural spaces, and earn a certificate to share stewardship with your community.

A grazing dairy in southeastern Pennsylvania meets summer forage needs with annual warm season mixtures planted in a continuous no-till system.

This video describes basic questions about hazards associated with manure pits located beneath solid and slatted floor dairy barns that incorporates manure storage.

Foolish Freddie demonstrates the proper approach to working in and around manure storages. Sensible steps that must be taken to assure safe entry and working conditions are shown in scale model manure storage.

A scale model is used to show risks of working in an empty manure pit without taking at least four simple precautions to ensure safe entry.

Learn how cover crops are implemented through ACAP to improve soil health and water quality, including eligibility, documentation, and practice standards.

Protect your land and streams with live staking! Learn low-cost, sustainable techniques to stabilize eroding backyard waterways in this informative webinar.

ACAP closes a critical funding gap for a whole-farm conservation project in Wayne County.

A challenge that beef and dairy producers manage through is mud, which deteriorates soil health in areas of heavy use. A heavy use area pad prevents soil erosion, creating more sustainability.

Sacrifice areas are areas where livestock are kept during inclement weather, or to protect pastures from damage.

Thoughtful selection of streamside trees and shrubs can have the added bonus of producing fruit, nuts, berries, or woody florals for profit or personal enjoyment.

A Center for Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training fact sheet about using constructed trails and walkways to manage livestock movement, reduce erosion, stabilize walking surfaces, and support integrated conservation practices on farms.

A video guide to affordable and easy stream bank restoration using branch cuttings called live stakes.

There are many reasons to improve your horse pastures, like equine health and environmental quality. But how do you know if your pasture needs improvement? These videos will explain why and how to evaluate horse pastures.

A Center for Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training fact sheet about using roof runoff structures to manage and channel rainwater and protect nearby surface water.

A Center for Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training article about using roofs to manage rainwater, improve stormwater management, and protect surface water.

Growing Great Buffers is a series of short, helpful videos that describe step-by-step maintenance tasks needed for newly planted riparian buffers.

Learn about no-till tobacco production in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.