Breakfast on the Bay with Jeanne, Bobby, and Val
You Are Invited to Breakfast on the Bay The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay made a three-minute video of Jeanne, Val, and me working at…
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August 8, 2021
Clouds of soil stir around the hooves of our cattle as they walk through the brown, dried-up pasture. Smoke haze from the megafires out west two thousand miles away permeates the sky. It’s just as the scientists said: The weather is getting warmer and weirder.
CO2 Concentration
Note: The text from this post was published as an oped in the News-Leader on 6/22/21. On June 7 the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and…
Drams from Whiskey Creek Angus Spring Surge—May 2021
Spring Surge of Grass During the month of May, everything grows like crazy. Here at Whiskey Creek Angus, the grasses and clovers in the pastures…
Earth Day 51, a Sense of Wonder, Environmental Activism, and the Law
There is much to be thankful for on Earth Day 51—way too much for a blog post! But here are some significant and promising environmental…
Drams from Whiskey Creek Angus: We Bought the Farm and Fenced the Cows Out of the Streams
Adventure of a Lifetime Well, here we are at Whiskey Creek Angus. I’m 65 years old; Jeanne is 60. We sold our dream house of…
The Unnamed Tributary
The unnamed tributary. That little creek, or seep, or spring, or bog, or wetland without a name begins its life as surface water when it…
BOBBY'S BOOKS
Bobby writes about life on his farm, implementing riparian buffers, and the factors that led to the defeat of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
Bobby Whitescarver and Jeanne Hoffman are using WaterWatch to document the effectiveness of BMPs on their Whiskey Creek and Meadow View Farms to reduce nutrient, sediment, and bacteria loads into Whiskey Creek and Middle River. Water Watch is built around two cloud-based applications developed by The Commons (formerly Chesapeake Commons): Water Reporter, a social network that shares images, observations, and monitoring data to fuel social media campaigns for improving water quality; and Field Doc, which measures stream restoration impacts of management practices at the project and parcel level. View FieldDoc and WaterReporter…