2024 Annual Dinner
Cindy Bliss of Zekiah Ridge Farm & Flower was recognized as the Charles Soil Conservation District (SCD) 2023 Cooperator of the Year at our annual dinner, held on May 22, 2024. Congratulations, Cindy!
To see the Charles SCD program updates and other accomplishments (as well as photos from Zekiah Ridge Farm & Flower), take a look at our presentation from the annual dinner: 2024 Annual Dinner Presentation.
Cooperator of the Year Past Recipients
- 2023: Zekiah Ridge Farm & Flowers – Cindy Bliss
- 2022: Goldsmith Family Farms – Patrick Goldsmith
- 2021: Billie T. Weedon
- 2020: Brianna Bowling
- 2019: Heinze Family
- 2018: James Elmer Hill, Jr., “Junior”
- 2017: No Cooperator of the Year – Charles SCD Board Recognition
- 2016: Shlagel Farms – Russel Shlagel and Family (Maryland Century Farm)
- 2015: Persistence Creek Farm – The Warring Family
- 2014: King Edward Stable Inc. – Mary Alice Good (FSCAP Certified)
- 2013: Apple Grove Farms – Peter Weber
- 2012: Rock Hall Farm – Wiliam L. Rice, Sr. and Melinda Rice
- 2011: End of Trail Farm – David and Bertie Spalding
- 2010: Harold Brent Garner, Jr.
- 2009: Old Fields Farm – Hancock Family
- 2008: Michael, Barbara, and Shirley Roberts
- 2007: William Devane
- 2006: Hancock Brothers Partnership – Chester, David, and Wayne Hancock
- 2005: Stephen Hales (posthumous)
- 2004: Thomas Mac Middleton
- 2003: Deanna Bias
- 2002: Clarence Tucker
- 2001: Franklin Robinson
- 2000: Francis V. Wheatley, Jr.
- 1999: Casper Bradbury
- 1998: Tommy Biggs and Leonard Goddard
- 1992-1997: None selected
- 1991: Wathen Brothers
- 1990: Marion and Victoria Cook
- 1989: Joseph and Lana Edelen
- 1988: Chester, Clark, and Henry Bowling