News

18 Jul

Watershed groups across PEI are monitoring for late blight spores in potato fields, a collaborative effort funded by the PEI AgriWatershed Partnership. This program aims to reduce agricultural runoff and build relationships between farmers and watershed communities. Using spore traps, groups like the Winter River-Tracadie Bay Watershed Association collect and analyze...

14:14 / News
18 Jul

Charlotte Large, project manager at the P.E.I. Watershed Alliance discusses watershed groups' efforts to combat anoxic events by collaborating with farmers to reduce nutrient runoff. 🌿💧 The alliance, which represents 25 watershed groups across the province, works to prevent harmful algae blooms and oxygen depletion in estuaries. 🌱 Education and outreach are...

14:12 / News
07 Feb

by Vivian Ulinwa published on Monday, February 5th, 2024, in The Guardian (online) A grazing workshop for P.E.I. farmers held in O'leary on Jan. 25 aimed to promote pasture management and increase yield for local farmers. The living lab workshop was a partnership between Agriculture and Agri-food Canada and the East-prince Agri-environment...

12:02 / News
30 Jan

The PEI Watershed Alliance, the umbrella organization that supports all 25 watershed groups on PEI was awarded almost a million dollars in funding in October of 2023 to assist watershed groups in the recovery and restoration of their areas post-Fiona. All of our groups have been hard at work rebuilding, restoring, and clearing...

13:49 / News
30 Jan

A woodchip bioreactor (nitrate filtra­tion system) was installed in a field over­looking the Seal River estuary in the fall and was aimed at providing valuable data about the severity of nitrate pollution in the area. The pilot project is a collabora­tion of Agri-Watershed Partnership, Pis­quid River Enhancement Project Inc (PREP) and Shady Lane Farms. The Seal River...

11:53 / News