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The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is seeking volunteers for its "Grasses for the Masses" program.
The program recruits people to grow underwater grasses in their homes, schools or business that are later planted in tributaries of the bay.
Underwater grasses are critical to the bay's health. They help ward off pollution and provide food and shelter for blue crabs, fish and wildfowl.
The foundation is sponsoring workshops in Richmond, northern Virginia and the Hampton Roads area for volunteers. Each person who attends gets a grow kit, seeds and instructions. There is a fee of $40 for each grow kit.
Workshops are planned in early February.
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CBF is a sham
They have been in existence for 40 years and still the Bay is a cesspool.If I had that track record where I worked, my clients wouldn't stick around for long. These are the same people who complain about the oysters demise yet wouldn't allow the asian oyster to be introduced into the Bay.Furthermore they built their eco HQ ON A WETLAND....guess the regs they have burdened the rest of us with don't apply to them. CBF is just a $18 million a year holding tank for people know one else would hire anyway...maybe I should be thanking them.
Chesapeake Bay Foundation seeks volunteers
The CBF is valuable non-profit organization that seeks to help repair the damaged ecosystem of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The $40 fee requested for the grow kit will be recognized as a donation to a qualified charitable organization. If one cannot afford the fee, perhaps they may find a sponsor to provide the necessary cash to set up a growing spot. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Actually,
Many waterfront homeowners, including myself, consider the CBF to be an overburdening meddlesome bureaucracy that forces its ridiculous regulations on homeowners who just want to make small improvements to their back yard, and in many cases, would love to make changes that would benefit the bay. However, the regulations they come up with through the CBA have lost them the respect of many people who would normally be okay with something like this.
Just ask any homeowner who wanted to install a simple patio in the back yard but decided not to because of the heaps of bureaucracy they would have to face.
Disagree
The CBF has regulations in place for reason. I boat throughout the Lynnhaven River and its tributaries. What you consider "small improvements" in many cases are elaborate, ornate, and in many cases, poorly constructed add-ons with no consideration for run-off potential. Couple that with labor-intensive landscapes which require weekly mowing, fertilizer applications, etc. If all you were building was a small patio, the regs wouldn't impede you that much. Its the "price" you pay to live by the water. If everyone were perfect environmental stewards, then there would be no need for CBF. Unfortunately, most CBF detractors are the same people who throw cigarette butts out the car window and cant pick up an errant soda bottle floating dockside.
Hah
I bet you never tried to build a small patio under the current regulations. My back yard is so dry and porous, I can barely grow grass back there, but in order to add your small patio which you mentioned, I would have to add more bushes to the hundreds already back there and a few trees to the dozens already there. And this patio is over 100' from the water.
I can see where people would cheat because the regulations are so idiotic. If they had more common sense, then more people would be more than happy to comply.
huh...
$40 fee for each grow kit.
I will be sure to stay at home that day to avoid getting caught in the stampede...
If
they could figure out a way to grow "grass" underwater I think you would have your stampede!!