St. Mary's Soil Conservation District

08/11/2026

COME GET YOUR RAFFLE TICKET🎟️💵

The Maryland Envirothon, partnering with the Catoctin FFA Alumni, is holding a Lottery Raffle. Each ticket is $20.00 and includes two Maryland pick 3 numbers. If your selected ticket number matches the Maryland Pick 3 number drawn on any day in September, you win the amount of money shown for that day. Daily prizes range from $50.00 up to $500.00. Winners will be paid after the contest ends on September 30, 2026. Each $20.00 ticket gives you 60 chances to win. Selected numbers can win multiple times. Only 500 tickets were printed, and St. Mary’s Soil Conservation has 50 to sell! Proceeds from the raffle will support the Maryland 2027 NCF Envirothon, which will be hosted on the last week of July 2027 at Mount St. Mary's University.
If not all tickets are sold, the daily prize amounts will be reduced accordingly. If you are interested in some tickets, please come see our office to purchase and fill out the ticket info. Deadline is September 1st ‼️

01/09/2026

🌿 Now Accepting Nominations: 2025 Sustainability Awards! 🌎

Do you know a student, school, business, restaurant, farm, non-profit, or neighbor who’s going above and beyond to protect our local environment? The St. Mary's County Commission on the Environment wants to hear about them!

The 2025 Sustainability Awards honor St. Mary’s County residents and organizations for environmental stewardship, resource conservation, innovative practices, and pollution prevention throughout the 2025 calendar year. 💧🌱💡

⏰️ Nomination Deadline: 5 p.m. on February 28, 2026
📩 Nominations may be submitted online or by email
ℹ️ Read the full news release for details:https://www.stmaryscountymd.gov/pio/docs/2025-225NewsReleaseSustainabilityAwards.pdf

Let’s shine a light on the people and organizations making St. Mary’s County greener and more sustainable for us all! 🌎✨

12/03/2025

On this please consider donating to the Maryland Envirothon. We are a 501c3 nonprofit and everything donated goes to help us to run our natural resources competition and engage high school students in this amazing opportunity to be outdoors and learn about environmental issues.

11/25/2025

Are you or someone you know interested in serving on St. Mary's County Soil Conservation Board? We are looking for qualified individuals to apply!

Any questions regarding the process, please reach out to St. Mary's Soil Conservation at 301-475-8402 ext 3

07/28/2025

Congrats to Harford County for placing second at the NCF Envirothon 2025! Way to represent Maryland 🎉🎊

🥈 2nd Place – NCF-Envirothon 2025
Standing tall in second place... 👏
Join us in celebrating the 2nd place winning team at Envirothon 2025!
🏆 Team: Maryland
📊 Overall Score: 619.67
🎓 $10,000 team scholarship

Sponsored by the Smithfield Foods

This team showed outstanding skill, critical thinking, and passion for protecting our natural world. 🌲💧
Bravo on this well-deserved success!

05/28/2025

☎️Calling Young Farmers☎️ The Young Farmers and Ranchers Program invites you to get interested. Check out this flyer for more details! 👩‍🌾🧑‍🌾

04/22/2025

Happy Earth Day from St. Mary's Soil Conservation💙💚

04/17/2025

FREE technical assistance? Surely you can’t be serious...

In case you didn’t know, we provide FREE technical assistance whether or not you have a contract with us. The goal of conservation technical assistance is to give farmers and ranchers the personalized advice and information they need to make informed decisions. And just like participation in EQIP and CSP, conservation technical assistance is completely voluntary. If you come into the office and leave with a conservation plan, no one is going to enforce what was provided in that plan. We just want to help you make your land as profitable and resilient as possible!

04/16/2025

Park Hall’s Jonathan, left, and Roberta Sola were named St. Mary’s Soil Conservation District Cooperator of the Year during the 70th annual Cooperators dinner Feb. 21.