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Stewardship Week April 26 – May 3

Each year, from the last Sunday in April to the first Sunday in May we celebrate Stewardship Week and we have forquite sometime. In fact, the celebration goes back to 1955 when the National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD) first celebrated Stewardship Week as a way of promoting stewardship and conservation. Gene Schmidt, NACD 1st Vice President from Indiana says 54 years later, the 2009 celebrationis no different.

“It just gives us an opportunity to look out and realize that sometimes one person can make a difference, we can all do just little bit within our lives to enrich our resources around us and that’s what stewardship is all about,” saidSchmidt.

This year’s Stewardship Theme is “Dig It! The Secrets of Soil.”