Conservation News
Highlights from Our Educational Programs
Highlights from Our Educational Programs
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Long Island Water Education Program Expands to More Local Schools
Continue readingThanks to a generous $40,000 grant received from the New York State Conservation Partnership program, our Water Education Program will continue for two additional years. This fall, we expanded to include Great Neck and Valley Stream School Districts in addition to the five with which we launched the program during the 2014/15 school year.
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Grant Funding Helps Sustain Our Water Education Program and the Acquisition of the Humes Property
Continue readingLand Alliance awarded a $40,000 grant in support of our acquisition of the 28-acre Humes property in the Village of Mill Neck and an additional $40,000 to help sustain our Water Education Program in elementary school throughout Long Island.
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The Great Healthy Yard Project: Our Yards, Our Children, Our Responsibility!
Continue readingMany of us do not connect our yards with our drinking water supply, but the chemicals we use on our lawns and gardens wash with rain and storm water into our streams, ponds, reservoirs and deep groundwater wells in measurable amounts. Together these water sources comprise our drinking water – and as a result, chemicals flow into our homes and bodies.
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2015 Long Island Food Conference Featuring Stephen Ritz
Continue readingSponsored by the North Shore Land Alliance, the Long Island Food Conference (formerly the Small Farm Summit) was a full-day event dedicated to educating Long Islanders about the benefits of healthy eating, growing their own food, living sustainably and protecting our existing farms and farmland.