Blue Ridge Permaculture Network-- they promote permaculture. This is planting in such a way that you don't need to plow; creating permanent gardens from perennial crops mimicking the way plants grow in nature, thus reducing soil loss.
http://www.blueridgepermaculture.net/
Flora of Virginia Project-- they were created to make the Flora of Virginia, a compendium/book of every single plant species in Virginia-- truly a massive undertaking. They have contributed toward and been helped by many other groups such as the Virginia Plant Atlas and Virginia Native Plant Society.
http://floraofvirginia.org/
Ivy Creek Foundation-- maintains the Ivy Creek Natural Area and provides free educational events and programs there throughout the year.
http://ivycreekfoundation.org/
Living Earth School-- programs for youth and adults on sustainable living, primitive skills, and nature
http://livingearthva.com/
Local Food Hub-- like the Heritage Harvest Festival, this organization is more concerned sustainable agriculture than nature, but the two subjects often go together and are interrelated. The Local Food Hub provides access to "nutritious, locally farm sourced food for everyone".
http://localfoodhub.org/
Natural Heritage Foundation-- concerned with preserving and protecting local areas of important, delicate habitat (biodiversity hotspots, etc)
http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural_heritage/
Piedmont Environmental Council- they "promote and protect the Virginia Piedmont's rural economy, natural resources, history and beauty."
http://www.pecva.org/
Rivanna Conservation Society-- their mission is to "safeguard the ecological, recreational, historical, cultural and scenic resources of the Rivanna River and its tributaries."
http://rivannariver.org/
Rivanna Master Naturalists- a program that trains and organizes Virginians to participate in natural resource education, citizen science, and stewardship projects to benefit the environment. You undergo a training course to become a Master Naturalist (gaining deep knowledge of many disciplines of natural science), and in response you are expected to give back.
http://www.vmn-rivanna.org/
Sierra Club- promoting conservation of the natural environment through legislative, administrative, and electoral means
http://virginia.sierraclub.org/piedmont/
Southern Environmental Law Center-- they are so good! They are winning court cases left and right throughout the South
https://www.southernenvironment.org/
http://streamwatch.org/
Thomas Jefferson Foundation-- they put on a Heritage Harvest Festival each year at Monticello, celebrating the heritage crops grown back in the day using sustainable methods.
http://heritageharvestfestival.com/
Virginia Native Plant Society, Jefferson Chapter-- educating us about and protecting the native flora
-http://vnps.org/jefferson/
-https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jefferson-Chapter-Virginia-Native-Plant-Society/132951300094979
Wild Virginia-- they focus on preserving wild forest ecosystems in Virginia's national forests and are currently working to stop hydraulic fracturing (fracking), which would pollute our local water
http://www.wildvirginia.org/about-us/
Wintergreen Nature Foundation-- their mission is to "enhance understanding, appreciation, and conservation of the natural and cultural resources of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia."
http://www.twnf.org/
Xerces Society-- a society dedicated to protecting invertebrates, especially butterflies, and their habitat.
http://www.xerces.org/
-------------GOVERNMENT GROUPS-------------
Albemarle County Parks Department
http://www.albemarle.org/department.asp?department=parks
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
www.deq.virginia.gov
Virginia Department of Forestry
http://www.dof.virginia.gov/
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries-- lots of information on individual wildlife and fish species (a whole booklet in Bobwhite Quail, for example) and information about habitats for wildlife
http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/
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