Learn about landscape-scale efforts to conserve farmland, improve water quality, and enhance public access through the development of new partnerships, use of innovative funding, and by embracing both conservation and land-use planning strategies from two organizations operating in the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia. The session will describe how the Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley and The Piedmont Environmental Council were able to build staff and partner capacity and accelerate conservation outcomes with water as the through line for all of their work. Regardless of organizational size or area of focus, this session will inspire relentless incrementalism for a watershed-wide, large landscape partnership approach to conservation.