Categories of Recognition:
This free, voluntary program helps Michigan farmers prevent erosion and runoff from impacting public waterways. Receive customized assistance and recognition for your stewardship—with all farm information kept 100% confidential under state law.
The program includes four steps...
Step 1: Learn
Attend a workshop or schedule a private meeting to learn if MAEAP is right for you. Alternately, you can review educational materials on the MAEAP website at your own pace.
Step 2: Farm Visit & Recommendations
Invite a MAEAP technician to tour your farm. The technician will explain the program and recommend practical steps you can take to reduce erosion and runoff into public waters.
Everything the technician learns about your farm will remain confidential and will not be shared with your competition or environmental regulators!
Step 3: Action Steps
Do the work at your own pace. Our MAEAP technicians are here to help you every step of the way. A technician will help you develop your plan of action and fill out paperwork. He or she can also steer you to cost share opportunities and expert help, if you'd like.
Step 4: Recognition
Once the work is complete, you can contact the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. A verifier from MDARD will visit your farm to ensure the recommended practices are in place and address erosion and runoff risks on your land. When the work is done, we will give you a sign to place on your farm and send you a certificate signed by the Director of the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Bruce & Jennifer Lewis
Pleasant View Dairy
“We believe electively opting to participate in MAEAP... will help farmers keep up with the rapid pace of environmental and sustainability-based industry changes... The fourth generation is now learning and preparing for their future as we all try to leave our farmstead better than we found it.”
Art Lister
Lister Orchards
"A big advantage of the MAEAP program is that it’ is a proactive approach to work with producers. I want to know that I am doing everything I can to protect the environment, and this assures me that I am doing just that."
Doug Darling
Darling Farms
"We’ are participating in MAEAP because we recognize the benefit to the environment, our community and our farming operation. I encourage more farms to pursue verification in MAEAP."
Schedule and appointment with our MAEAP & Regenerative Agriculture Technician, James Benjamin, today!
Email: kalamazoo.maeap@macd.org
Call: (269) 775-3361
