Landowner Grants and Stewardship Programs

Farmland Best Management Practices

Agricultural Best Management Practices (BMPs) are cost-effective, practical actions that landowners can take to improve soil health and water quality while maintaining or enhancing agricultural production. The UTRCA has developed a series of fact sheets, including several case studies and videos focusing on a variety of BMPs that differ in form and function.
Tractor pulls tree planting machine
A stream runs next to a farm field
Two hands hold dirt attached to roots of plant
A farm field
Green plants
A farm field
A wetland in a farm field
People stand in a circle in front of a sign about the Thorndale Demonstration Farm.

Grants: Clean Water Program

Funding may be available through the Clean Water Program, a rural water quality initiative providing technical assistance and financial incentives to improve and protect water quality on your farm. Rural landowners in the Counties of Oxford, Middlesex, and Perth, the Cities of London and Stratford, and the Town of St. Marys are eligible to apply to the program through their local Conservation Authority.

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