Upcoming Events:
The Virginia Conservation Network will be hosting a week of education and content for each of the chapters within Our Common Agenda, including webinars featuring each chapter's authors. These events will highlight and explain the policy suggestions contained within each briefing book chapter while celebrating the people who have worked diligently for months to craft the 2022 Our Common Agenda policy briefing book.
While there is a waitlist for PEC’s Farm-to-Table Dinner at St. Bride’s Farm on October 2, the good news is the auction portion of the event will be digital again this year!
Join Virginia Forage & Grassland Council to explore a successful silvopasteure where timber and cattle are managed together for profit, wildlife habitat, and resource conservation.
The Virginia Environmental Assembly brings together conservation leaders from across the Commonwealth to discuss Our Common Agenda to protect Virginia’s natural resources. This annual conference is hosted by Virginia Conservation Network, the partnership of more than 150 Virginia environmental organizations, including PEC.
How can we advance a more robust, equitable, and cleaner local transit system? Find out at this webinar on Transit Equity and Climate!
Please join us on Saturday, Oct. 2, at St. Bride’s Farm in Upperville for our annual Farm-to-Table Dinner, featuring locally-sourced food and beautiful views of the Piedmont and St. Bride’s Sculpture Collection. In conjunction, take part in our Virtual Auction online between Sept. 24 and Oct. 3. This year’s auction features around 30 outstanding items and experiences, including many that are unique to the Virginia Piedmont.
As businesses reopen in a post-COVID world, the retail landscape has changed. Marc Willson, retail expert with the Virginia SBDC, presents A Guide to Retail Renewal to help small businesses flourish in a new world.
This year PEC has moved its annual Sustainable Landscaping Workshop into a virtual platform with new presentations: Build Your Own Rain Garden, Solutions to Challenging Soils and Locations, and Building a Garden Ecosystem. Join us during your Friday lunch hour for this informative webinar.
The Virginia Forage and Grassland Council has partnered with the American Farmland Trust and the Mountains to the Bay Grazing Alliance to bring the professional Ranching for Profit Workshops to the heart of Virginia.
This conference is an opportunity for area real estate agents and appraisers to learn about marketing tools to improve the sale of farmland. The purpose of the conference is to provide realtors with the background knowledge in agriculture, conservation and open space preservation to advise new landowner to the appropriate resources to help them make land management decision. Hosted by Virginia Cooperative Extension, with presentations on conservation easments by Rex Linville and Peter Hujik of PEC.
Join Audubon Naturalists Society for a candid conversation that explores how Latinx communities nationwide and in the Washington, DC region are responding to environmental, health, and economic crises while looking ahead to the future. Live interpretation to Spanish available. This virtual event is free with registration.
Hail to the Trail celebrates environmental recreation, exploration, and education.
The in-person field session held at Rappahannock County Park in Washington, Virginia will cover the identification of common invasive plants and demonstrate manual and chemical control techniques. Specific topics include herbicide safety, using hand tools and power tools safely, and identification of specific invasive shrubs and vines. Space for this event is limited to 35 attendees.
Join PRISM’s knowledgeable staff and volunteers in the field to learn invasive plant ID, herbicide safety, and a how-to for manual/chemical control techniques. In-person field sessions will be held in Charlottesville’s Azalea Park on September 25 and Rappahannock County Park in Washington, Virginia on October 17.
Join Virginia Forage and Grassland Council for an in-person and hands-on workshop focused on water pumping systems for livestock. October 21 and 22, 2021 at Shenandoah Valley AREC – McCormick Farm, 128 McCormick Farm Circle, Raphine, Virginia. Participants will learn the principles and applications of solar-electric water pumping. The primary focus will be on solar-powered water pumping systems, however, some other alternatives will be discussed too. Learn more about these systems, some considerations for their use, and hear farmer experiences.
PEC works toward building better communities by encouraging investment in attractive, livable urban centers. We've invited professor Tim Beatley to present on maintaining nature in our urban environments and the Biophilic Cities designation.
Poultry processing is the term used by the poultry industry to describe the conversion of live poultry into raw poultry products fit for human consumption. Attendees to this workshop will learn about the equipment necessary for poultry processing and about American Farmland Trust's low cost portable processing equipment rental program.
Birds: Feathers, Fields, Forests and Flowers, the 63rd GCV Conservation Forum, offers an impressive roster of speakers who will entertain and educate attendees on the “brilliance of birds” and some of the threats that are causing their numbers to diminish. Learn how our actions can help protect birds and their habitats, now and in the future. A question and answer session will follow each presenter.
The fall meeting of the Piedmont Mobility Alliance will be an opportunity for individuals and groups to share updates and work on projects with collective benefit. This event is online.
Get your costume, scare up some friends and join the Piedmont Mobility Alliance for a free, fun, relaxed and social bicycle ride through the streets of Charlottesville!
Join The Piedmont Environmental Council, Friends of the Rappahannock, Goose Creek Association, John Marshall Soil & Water Conservation District, and Casey's Trees for a volunteer tree planting at Sky Meadows State Park on Friday, October 29 - Saturday, October 30! Volunteers will be needed in two shifts, from 9am-noon and 1-3pm, for planting 1,060 native tree tubelings (scalping, digging holes, planting, and pounding wooden stakes). This is a family friendly event, and volunteers of all ages are welcome! Volunteers under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
In the spring, The Clifton Institute planted 975 tree seedlings along the stream in our native grassland. They need your help finishing the planting with a few more trees. Please bring your own work gloves if you have them.