The Project
The Honey Hollow Watershed consists of five farms totaling about 650 acres located near the Delaware River The conservation area was established by local farmers, with the help of the Soil Conservation Service in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.
The project was a model of cooperative conservation efforts by farmers. By 1941 terraces and diversion ditches were built to control runoff on steep slopes and hedges were planted to control erosion. The project attracted national attention when Vice President Henry Wallace visited the first time in 1944. Conservationist Louis Bromfield also became associated with the project.
P. Alton Waring, one of six farmers involved in the project, wrote about the project in the United States Department of Agriculture publication "Team Work to Save Soil and Increase Production." and in the magazine "The Land."
The watershed was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1969.
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