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Fall 2009
Vol. 20, no. 2 (628K)

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Upcoming Events 2010

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Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust holds summer events to bring members and neighbors onto the land together with staff, and to showcase conservation successes we work together to achieve. This summer, events include hikes and workshops that highlight Mount Grace’s work and some of the dozens of local farms we have helped protect.

Please join us!

Sunday, July 18, 1–3pm: Leigh Youngblood and Red Fire Farm’s Ryan Voiland will join to lead a walk on the farm’s new land in Montague. Mount Grace worked with Ryan and Sarah Voiland to place an Agricultural Preservation Restriction on part of the property this year. The Voilands will move the core of their CSA farm operations from Granby to Montague in 2012.

Saturday, July 24, 9–noon: Tour Chase Hill Farm in Warwick with owner Mark Fellows and the Athol Bird and Nature Club’s Dave Small. The 265-acre dairy farm was protected by Mount Grace in 2001 and includes a trail easement leading to spectacular views on the south fields.

Saturday, July 31, 9–noon: Walk the trails of Phillipston’s Thousand Acre Swamp, behind Red Apple Farm, with Bill Rose. Mount Grace helped protect the farm in 2007 and is now working on several conservation projects involving wetlands in Thousand Acre Swamp.

Saturday, August 7, 9–noon: Gill’s Bascom Hollow Farm covers 163 acres along the Falls River. Author Brian Donahue, a co-owner of the farm, will lead a tour focusing on how the farm manages its woodlands, including sugar maples, plans for wood pasturing of hogs, and an ongoing timber harvest.

Monday, August 9th, 11am–12:30pm: Winchendon’s Murdock Farm will host a children’s ice cream open house together with Mount Grace and the Beals Memorial Library. Librarian Julia Cardinal will read for children, followed by a tour of the ice cream making operation at the farm, protected by Mount Grace in 2009. Rain date is Thursday August 12.

Saturday, August 14, 1–3: Sweetwater Farm in Petersham will host a children’s farm tour highlighting the orchard, animals, and garden. The farm, which grows organic crops and raises sheep, goats, chickens, and cows, offers week-long educational camps during the early summer for children ages 510 through the Summer Seedlings program.

Saturday, August 21, 9–1: Just Roots, the community garden group at the Greenfield Town Farm will offer an open house with garden tours, a soil building workshop, and a tour of the nearby stream and woods led by Ted Watt of the Hitchcock Center. Just Roots is collaborating with Mount Grace and the town to place an Agricultural Preservation Restriction on the land.

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Some events have limited spots available. Please RSVP by contacting David Kotker at (978) 248-2043 ext. 19 or kotker@mountgrace.org.

Thanks to our sponsors:
Bidwell Advisors, CPG Enterprises, and Sirius Design
for underwriting the Local Farms-Local Food Summer Series.

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