About Limestone Valley
OUR WORK
Limestone Valley works across eleven counties in northwest Georgia, connecting landowners, farmers, and local governments with the funding and expertise to get conservation projects done. We've spent decades building relationships with federal and state agencies so our members don't have to navigate that alone.
CLEAN WATER
Our longest-running work is keeping northwest Georgia's creeks and rivers clean. Through EPA Clean Water Act grants, we work with farmers to fence cattle out of streams, fix failing septic systems, stabilize eroding banks, and plant native trees along the water's edge. We also monitor water quality, sample fish and macro-invertebrates, and host volunteer events, stream cleanups, canoe trips, tree plantings, and Adopt-A-Stream training, that connect people to the watersheds in their backyard.
LANDOWNER RESOURCES
We produced the Georgia Agricultural Landowner's Guide — a bilingual resource covering every state and federal program available to farm and timber landowners in Georgia. If you own land and want to know what help is available to you, this is the place to start.
CONSERVATION FARMING
We've offered no-till drill rentals to farmers across the region for decades. No-till planting protects soil, reduces erosion, cuts fuel costs, and improves water quality downstream. Equipment is managed locally through our Soil and Water Conservation District partners.
OTHER PROJECTS
We've partnered on wetland restorations, tree planting programs, agricultural best management practice planning, and energy audits for poultry houses that help farmers cut electricity and gas costs while reducing emissions.
If you have a project and don't know where to start, that's exactly what we're here for. Get in touch.
ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION
Limestone Valley Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) Council is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. The organization was formerly federally funded in 1975, along with all RC&D Councils, under the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), and is now a stand-alone non-profit group.