Cheatham County Soil & Water Conservation District

06/04/2026

On Monday, June 1st, we joined NRCS staff from Dickson, Montgomery, Hickman, and Humphreys Counties for a multi-county roundtable meeting hosted at the Michael Burns farm. Landowners and producers from each of the participating counties were part of the discussion. Cheatham County was represented by Michael Burns, James DeLanis, and Darwin Newton. Together, we covered streambank stabilization needs, sinkhole concerns, riparian forest buffers, and other resource issues across our region.
Lunch was provided by Cheatham County SWCD and Dickson County SWCD, and we appreciate everyone who took time out of their day to participate. Thank you to all who attended and contributed to these important conversations.

04/27/2026

On Friday, April 10th Janice Weiss, Cheatham County SWCD hosted Conservation Education Day for East Cheatham Elem School 1st Grade classrooms at River Bluff Park In Ashland City. (teachers: Mrs. Morris; Mrs. Wilson; Ms. Buess and Mrs. Stehle) Students enjoyed learning about their natural resources through fun stations including: Bees; Edible Soil Profiles; Soil Tunnel, Earth Bead Bracelets; and animal pelts. Big thank you to my co-workers/friends that helped make this day a success... Amy Lies, Dickson County SWCD; Nancy Holt, Montgomery County SWCD; Stacy Fuller, Rutherford County SWCD; Karrie Stapp, Rutherford County SWCD, Shanna Mathis, Stewart County SWCD; Tiffany Holder, Cheatham County, Angie Kay, Cheatham County, Logan Dugger, NRCS; Jeremiah Sumpter, NRCS; & Robert Palfreyman, NRCS.

03/21/2026

On Thursday, Cheatham County Soil and Water Conservation District held their annual seedling giveaway! Couldn’t have ask for a more beautiful day, 500 seedlings were given out to Cheatham County landowners to be planted in our county. Thank you to Nate Holder and Amy Lies for volunteering to help.

03/05/2026

Cheatham Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisors attended the Tennessee Association of Conservation 82nd Convention this week in Franklin, Tennessee. Great meeting with lots of great speakers on conservation education, district supervisor roles and responsibilities, etc. Darwin Newton of Ashland City serves as Vice President for this organization and Awards Chairman. So proud to have all my supervisors at this meeting.

02/19/2026

Congratulations to Ray Weaver, Coffee County! Awesome Award!!❤️

12/30/2025

NACD wants to make sure you're able to celebrate our anniversary with us in San Antonio, Texas, at the 2026 Annual Meeting, so we're extending our early bird deals!

➡️Now through January 5, save up to $130 per person on registration costs.

Hosted in partnership with the Association of Texas Soil and Water Conservation Districts , our 80th meeting will take place on February 15-19, 2026. Join us to celebrate this milestone anniversary and explore the meeting's theme, "Deep Roots, Bold Horizons" through breakout sessions, keynote addresses, tours, and more.

🔗 https://www.nacdnet.org/news-and-events/annual-meeting/

12/16/2025

Thursday, December 11th Janice Weiss, Cheatham County SWCD delivered 2025 Poster Contest Winner awards to the schools! This is probably one of the most rewarding things I do all year, just to see the smiles on these children’s faces when they are presented with awards. We had so many good posters this year. I would like to say congratulations to everyone that participated because they all did an awesome job! 

11/07/2025

SECDEA Annual Conference was held this week in Pigeon Forge! A great educational meeting for district employees throughout the southeast states. It was packed with lots of educational information for district employees. We bring back ideas and ways to do things from other states. We had a great motivational speaker, Vallie Collins who is a plane crash survivor from the crash on the Hudson River years ago! We ended the meeting with a banquet where Tennessee’s Ray Weaver, from Coffee County was selected as the SECDEA District Official of the Year! So proud of all the accomplishments Ray has made over the years in Conservation! Congratulations to Ray Weaver!

10/12/2025

10/11/2025

Our annual 2025 poster contest is underway. Information has been delivered to all schools. I will be picking up posters on October 21 at 9 AM. From the school offices of all of our elementary schools in Cheatham County. There will be prizes given to the first place winners in each category and a prize to the winning students classroom also. Please encourage your students to participate in this contest. We do this each year to raise awareness for agriculture in our county.