Tuesday, February 11, 2025

6pm panel with 7pm reception
108 Severn Avenue, Annapolis, MD 21403

Panelists will delve into the history of invasives and the reality of the blue catfish surge from fishhook to table; give an insider’s look into recent discourse on the issue; and delve into the policy bottlenecks and other barriers keeping blue catfish from becoming a restaurant staple.

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

6pm panel with 7pm reception
108 Severn Avenue, Annapolis, MD 21403

Panelists will delve into connections between public/community health and time spent outdoors; explore leading science; make recommendations on how hospital systems, insurance companies, and others can provide or even incentivize green space access and outdoor recreation; and recognize leading efforts to address overlapping environmental and health injustices in the region.

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

6pm panel with 7pm reception
108 Severn Avenue, Annapolis, MD 21403

Panelists will share on practices available to individual homeowners, HOAs, business owners, and others taking action on shared properties. Particulars will include rain and pollinator gardens, native plantings, invasives removal, composting, replacing impervious parking surface with permeable material, and more. Panelists will focus on the community stewardship impact driven by collective actions.

This was a one-day, virtual event to highlight the work done at the Chesapeake Bay Trust.

For those unable to attend, the two-part recording can be found using the buttons below:

The agenda can be found here.

The pdfs of the presentations can be found at the links below:

• Opening Presentation
• Breakout Room 1 Part I and Breakout Room 1 Part II
• Breakout Room 2
• Breakout Room 3

This one-day festival highlighted all of Maryland’s best and most famous offerings!

Proceeds from the Made in Maryland Festival help support our mission to engage and empower diverse groups to take actions that enrich natural resources and local communities of the Chesapeake Bay region.

This tour featured on-the-ground stormwater management practices to see how outreach and engagement activities involve County residents in the work of restoration.

For more information about other Trust field tours, email events@cbtrust.org.

The Great Chesapeake Bay Swim is one of America’s premier open water swim challenges, spanning 4.4 miles across the Bay!

A portion of the proceeds from this event support our work. We were honored to be onsite to support the competitors.

We partnered with the Bowie Baysox on May 26th for a special game to celebrate and protect the Chesapeake Bay!

Ticket sales supported our work to empower more people and communities to restore nature.

Thank you to the hundreds of businesses, families, partner organizations, and individuals who celebrated the Chesapeake Bay and supported our signature event this year!

Thank You for joining us for an insightful evening with Environmental Leaders in the Chesapeake region!

For those that were unable to attend, a full recording and transcript of the event are available.

Thank You for joining us for a panel discussion with Chesapeake community leaders addressing climate change!

For those that were unable to attend, photos and a full recording of the event are available.

Thank You for joining us for a panel discussion with local small business owners addressing sustainability!

For those that were unable to attend, photos and a full recording of the event are available.

Thank You for joining us for a discussion with local growers and producers focused on environmental sustainability.

For those that were unable to attend, photos of the event are available.

Thank You for joining us for a panel discussion with local experts on sustainable practices!  How are you living green?

For those that were unable to attend, photos of the event will be available soon.

We went virtual in 2021 for our Legislative Reception!

We were interested to learn our legislators favorite favorite places to visit. Click to learn more!

Find a new favorite place to treasure in the Chesapeake region!

We were unable to gather in 2020, but did find some new favorite places. Watch now to find yours!