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NRCS Florida Easement Coordinator Crenel Francis talks to two UF students.

Outreach in Action - Florida

NRCS is committed to ensuring that its programs and services are accessible to all our customers, fairly and equitably, with emphasis on reaching the underserved and socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, and tribes of our state.

Earth Team Volunteer Mrs. Linda Johnson receives Southeast Region Award

Meet our longest serving Earth Team volunteer Linda Johnson, PhD. She began volunteering at the NRCS Crestview Field Office in 1992. Linda was selected for the 2024 Earth Team Individual Volunteer Award in the Southeast Region. 

Pictured here with her husband Brad Johnson (left) and NRCS Florida Crestview Office District Conservationist Darryl Williams (right), Linda Johnson was recently presented with a Certificate of Appreciation by Florida NRCS for winning this award. Congratulations! 

Her 32 years of dedication on conservation projects varying from writing annual reports to helping students plant for beach dune habitat make her richly deserving of this commendable award. 

Earth Team Volunteer Mrs. Linda Johnson receives Southeast Region Award.

NRCS Florida is dedicated to promoting outreach opportunities to everyone, with special emphasis on all historically underserved groups and individuals, priority is given to:

  • New/beginning farmer or rancher
  • Limited-resource farmers or ranchers
  • Limited English proficiency customers
  • Veteran farmer or rancher
  • Categories of customers as minority and socially disadvantaged farmers or ranchers:
    • American Indian/Alaska Native
    • Asian American
    • Black/African American
    • Hispanic
    • Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander

Outreach Goals

Enhance knowledge, accessibility to and participation in services and programs across a variety of NRCS programs by underserved groups and individuals and communities throughout Florida through targeted initiatives.

Increase the visibility of NRCS and our programs and services among targeted audiences, in their communities and with the organizations that represent them.

Improve NRCS Florida employees’ understanding of outreach, their role in outreach and how to reach the communities that they serve.

Adhere to customer needs through agency programs and authorities.

Foster a seamless agricultural service provider network for all our customers.

Cultivate a more educated customer base on the positive impact natural resource conservation can have on agricultural productivity.

2023 Florida Ag Expo USDA booth.

In FY 2023, NRCS Florida participated in approximately 80 outreach events across the state. About 10,781 participants were reached through active engagement during producer meetings, agricultural tradeshow events, field days, and other partner, local, state, and community outreach events designed to inform farmers, ranchers and the public about NRCS conservation programs, disaster assistance, and employment opportunities.

Check out our NRCS Flickr page to see photos of outreach events happening in Florida.

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