Accokeek, MD—The Accokeek Foundation was named as one of the 21 partner recipients of the National Park Service (NPS) Chesapeake Bay Office’s Fiscal Year 2012 Investments. Last Fall, the NPS Chesapeake Bay Office provided financial assistance for projects that address education, youth employment and stewardship programs, and public access and trail development in the Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrail Network; such as the Piscataway Park Public Water Access Development pr

It’s officially a new year (and a new decade)! Twenty-ten was a fantastic year, bringing both new and familiar faces to the Accokeek Foundation–from volunteers working hard to wash, spin, and knit heritage breed sheep’s wool into beautiful works of textile art and Museum Theater Interns who worked through the July heat to put on a highly-entertaining performance, A Colonial Wedding, to our Ecosystem Farm Apprentices, dedicated farm volunteers, and the many visitors and s