Meade County Conservation District-Brandenburg, KY

05/12/2026

🎉🎓Meade County Conservation District Proudly Announces 2026 Scholarship Winners🎓🎉

We are thrilled to announce our 2026 Bernard Ritchie Scholarship high school winners! Join us in congratulating and wishing them the best of luck on their future.

🏆Congratulations to:
🎓 Shyann Keith
🎓 Case Redmon

04/24/2026

All the trees are gone! Thank you everyone that helped. We would love it if everyone that picked up trees would please take and post pictures and tag us!

04/24/2026

Red Oak and white oak is all we have left!!!

04/24/2026

We are at the Meade County Farmers Market pavilion again today and do have a LIMITED supply of Pawpaws. When we run out we will not be getting more.

UPDATE: 10:20
*We are out of Pawpaws*

UPDATE: 11:15
**Down to our last 50 Wild plums**

UPDATE - 1pm
***We are out of Wild Plum***

04/23/2026

Huge shoutout to the Meade County Recycling Center for donating newspapers to use for our Tree Giveaway! It’s a simple swap that helps us reduce the use of plastic tree bags and keep things more sustainable ♻️ 🌎 We’re so thankful for our community partners that make these events so amazing!!!

We hope to have another successful day tomorrow giving out some trees 🌳 Thank you to all who came out today!

04/23/2026

We are out of Paw Paw trees but still have the following:
• Red Oak
• Silky Dogwood
• White Oak
• Sugar Maple
• Wild Plum

04/23/2026

Today is the day for the tree giveaway! We will be there at 9 am and will be doing a restock around lunch. We ask everyone to please be patient and kind as we hand out the trees this year.

**UPDATE**
We are almost out of Paw Paws for the day!!!

**UPDATE 2**
We are out of the Pawpaws for the day!!!

04/22/2026

Reminder that our tree giveaway is TOMORROW AND FRIDAY from 9-4 at the Meade County Extension Office's pavilion. Here are the Fact Sheets for this year's trees:

Red Oak: https://eec.ky.gov/Natural-Resources/Forestry/state-nuseries-and-tree-seedlings/Documents/Oak,%20southern%20red.pdf

White Oak: https://eec.ky.gov/Natural-Resources/Forestry/state-nuseries-and-tree-seedlings/Documents/Oak,%20white.pdf

Pawpaw:https://eec.ky.gov/Natural-Resources/Forestry/state-nuseries-and-tree-seedlings/Documents/Pawpaw.pdf

Sugar Maple: https://eec.ky.gov/Natural-Resources/Forestry/state-nuseries-and-tree-seedlings/Documents/Maple,%20sugar.pdf

Wild Plum: https://eec.ky.gov/Natural-Resources/Forestry/state-nuseries-and-tree-seedlings/Documents/Plum,%20wild.pdf

Seedling Planting Instructions:https://eec.ky.gov/Natural-Resources/Forestry/Documents/seedlingplantinginstructions.pdf

04/15/2026

Join us in welcoming our new district admin!

04/15/2026

Attention all Meade County schools and educators! Check out this grant application. Meade County School District, Barry Hahn Primary School - Brandenburg Primary School, David T. Wilson Elementary, Ekron Elementary School, Flaherty Elementary School, Flaherty Primary School, Payneville Elementary School, Stuart Pepper Middle School, Meade County High School

Christina Sue Lilja Resource Grants provides funds for educators to purchase ag literacy resources from the Ag Foundation store.