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Grasses for the Masses, Richmond Workshop
ORGANIZATION: Chesapeake Bay Foundation - Richmond, VA
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Join the Chesapeake Bay Foundation for our signature underwater restoration program, Grasses for the Masses!
By attending this workshop, you'll learn all about the Chesapeake Bay and it's pollution problems and solutions--as well as how to grow underwater grasses to protect our waterways. After growing your grasses until May, you'll transplant the plugs into protected restoration sites across the state to benefit local waterways.
Kits require maintenance at least every other day, including replacing the evaporated water and removing an algae.
This program provides an aquarium-style grow kit and seed to grow wild celery, a submerged aquatic plant. Kits are $40 each, and include all materials except light bulbs and construction-grade sand.
More information on the programs innerworkings can be found at www.cbf.org/grasses.
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About Chesapeake Bay Foundation - Richmond, VA
Location:
1108 East Main Street , Suite 1600, Richmond, VA 23219, US
Mission Statement
Save the Bay™, and keep it saved, as defined by reaching a 70 on CBF's Health Index.
Description
Founded in 1967, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) is the largest independent conservation organization dedicated solely to saving the Bay. Serving as a watchdog, we fight for effective, science-based solutions to the pollution degrading the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers and streams. Our motto, "Save the Bay," is a regional rallying cry for pollution reduction throughout the Chesapeake's six-state, 64,000-square-mile watershed, which is home to more than 17 million people and 3,000 species of plants and animals.
With offices in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia and 15 field centers, CBF leads the way in restoring the Bay and its rivers and streams. Over the last four decades, we have created broad understanding of the Bay's poor health, engaged public leaders in making commitments to restore the Chesapeake, and fought successfully to create a new approach to cleanup that features real accountability-the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint.
But the Bay is still a system dangerously out of balance. We continue to engage in education, advocacy, litigation, and restoration to turn the tide and leave a legacy of clean water for future generations.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Offices1108 East Main StreetSecond Floor Conference RoomRichmond, VA 23219
DATE POSTED
December 22, 2017
SKILLS
- Habitat Restoration
- Aquarium Maintenance
- Botany
- Environmental Education
- Gardening
- Horticulture
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- 2 hours
- must have space for aquarium, does best in well-lit, temperature controlled environment.