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
24 May

The P.E.I. Watershed Alliance has been contracted to deliver one of the programs, to smaller sites and riparian zones — land located along bodies of water such as lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands. The group is doing site assessments now, with the goal of selecting locations for planting in 2025.  "We start with asking...

14:33 / Uncategorized
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