Lacombe County ALUS program ready for more participants

LACOMBE COUNTY- The Lacombe County Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS) program, which promotes sustainable agriculture, is looking for its next group of participants for the 2019 program year.

“Since we launched ALUS, we have established some remarkable relationships and projects, and are putting out a call to producers and landowners in Lacombe County to come on board and help us grow this program even more,” explained Marilyn Sharp, chair for ALUS Lacombe County Partnership.

The ALUS program places a value on the delivery of ecosystem services and financially compensates landowners and agricultural producers on a per acre rate for projects such as constructing off-site watering stations, planting trees, shelterbelts or natural vegetation, seeding grass or perennial crops around ecological sensitive areas, building hen houses, or establishing pollinator habitat, just to name a few.

Since launching in 2017, the Lacombe County ALUS program has had: