Travis Miller, part owner and manager of the 330-acre DeSoto Grove in DeSoto County, was recently recognized by the Florida Farm Bureau Federation for his natural resource conservation efforts. Miller and 22 other Florida farmers and ranchers received the Farm Bureau’s County Alliance for Responsible Environmental Stewardship (CARES) award.
Miller reports on the conservation steps taken at DeSoto Grove:
“We enrolled into the BMP (Best Management Practices) program in 2017. Our company, Wetlands Resource Center, background doesn’t come from farming; we started in land conservation and wetland restoration. We have…..
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