Each year at the Annual Dinner Outstanding Cooperator of the Year Dinner, Calvert SCD recognizes a family or individual that demonstrates their commitment to conservation. By adopting new best management practices to protect soil and water resources to keep nutrients and sediment out of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, you are setting a fine example of a farm to save the Bay as well as good conservation efforts for the environment. For your exemplary stewardship of the land, the wildlife that inhabit it, and the animals in your care, we thank you.
History of Outstanding Cooperators of the Year:
2024 American Chestnut Land Trust (ACLT)
2023 Margaret and Mike Phipps, Mead’s Lane Farm
2022 None selected
2021 None selected
2020 None selected
2019 James & Jennifer Dowell, Tyverne Creek Farm
2018 Donnie Bowen, Patuxent Overlook Farm
2017 Kathy Bowen, Legacy Farm
2016 Eddie Smith
2015 J.R. Cosgrove Family, Horsmon Farm
2014 Tiralla Family, Monnett Farm
2013 Josef Seidel
2012 Lester Holland
2011 S.L. Brady
2010 Mark & Bonnie Spicknall
2009 Judy Leavitt
2008 Mary Jean Ridgley
2007 William Dowell
2006 Walt Wells & Susie Hance-Wells
2005 Parran Briscoe
2004 Donald T. Gott
2003 Jim Bourne
2002 Paul Sellers
2001 Howard Anderson
2000 Frankie Woods
1999 Wilson Freeland
1998 Phillip Jones
1997 Spencer Howes
1996 David Cox
1995 Leroy Bowen
1994 Richard Smith
1993 John A. Prouty
1992 John D. Briscoe
1991 No one chosen
1990 John Crane
1989 No one chosen
1988 Cassandra Briscoe
1987 Walt and Susie Wells
1986 Thomas Weems
1985 Robert Carter
1984 Allen Swann
1983 Timothy Gott
1982 Thomas Cullember
1981 Richard Horsmon
1980 J. Kenneth Hutchins, Jr.
1979 Daniel W. Gibson
1978 Robert Hance and Benjamin Hance
1977 Edward J. Allen
1976 Raymond Hutchins
1975 Clifton Whittington
1974 Thomas I. Weems, Jr.
1973 James Bourne
1972 Leroy B. Williams
1971 Malcolm Gordon Grahame
1970 Kennard Ward
1969 Raymond Garrity
1968 Edwin Ward
1967 Young D. Hance
1966 William M. Phipps
1965 Dennis Monnett
1964 Gilbert Chaney
1963 Benjamin Parran
1962 Alvin King
1961 Billy Bowen