Institute for Local Self-Reliance / Future Harvest CASA / Chesapeake Bay Foundation / Waterkeepers Chesapeake / Institute for Energy and Environmental Research

Special Fall 2019 Grants

Edmund A Stanley Jr. Heroic Future Initiative

$3,080,000

The goal of the Million Acre Challenge – Healthy Soils for Maryland’s Future 3-year project is to build the vocal and sustained farmer- and consumer-driven movement necessary to transform Maryland agriculture into a regenerative system that improves water quality and farm resilience, is profitable, and helps mitigate climate change.