RTB is collaborating with the Town of Dartmouth, MA for the second year of their Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Program (MVP). The MVP Grant is a state-level climate program that “supports cities and towns as they build resilience to climate change.’ Dartmouth is inspecting their most vulnerable town sites that would be affected by climate change – especially in this area where one of those challenges is coastal flooding – and working with Comprehensive Environmental Inc., an engineering firm, to design nature-based, resiliency plans for some of those at-risk sites. Along with the Lloyd Center for the Environment, Round the Bend Farm is working to educate the public about nature-based solutions.
You can learn more at EngageDartmouth.org/mvp-program. Or you can find the informational booklet by clicking the link here https://qrco.de/bf5sFo
Nature-based solutions are an attempt to address environmental challenges by modeling nature to find ways that human activities can support and restore ecosystem health. So, what does that look like at the farm? It looks like: deep, healthy soil; pervious roadways and paths; covercropping fields; rotational grazing; and composting toilets… to name a few of the ways that we model nature. Visit the farm or our website to learn more.
