Great Outdoors
New milestones for the Granby Wildflower Meadow
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The Granby Wildflower Meadow reached two major milestones this past year that will transform how the community interacts with one of the town’s newest natural gems.
Great Outdoors
Art will form connection for birders and conservationists
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Winter is still a great time for birding in Connecticut. It is a season filled with the dark-eyed junco, tufted titmouse, white-breasted nuthatch and the Northern cardinal, to name a few.
Great Outdoors
Christmas Day is perfect for Granby hikes
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Don Shaw, Jr. took a photograph on Christmas Day that he thought Drummer readers may find interesting—Christmas Day hikers enjoying the Crag Mountain panoramic view from Granby Land Trust’s Emery Family Preserve.
Bonus Pages
A Snowy Morning
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On Jan. 19, Granby woke up to a beautiful coating of snow. This view is from East Street in North Granby.
Granby Land Trust
Welcoming 2026 at Mary’s Rock
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Eighteen hardy souls braved 18-degree weather to enjoy the 18th Annual GLT New Year’s Day Hike at the snowy and beautiful Mary Edwards Mountain Property in North Granby. A big thank you to Hike Leader Fran Armentano, who has made this a special way to start the New Year for so many years!
Granby Land Trust
Help protect Granby’s heritage and future
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Join the Granby Land Trust and help protect some of Granby’s most cherished natural places—beautiful landscapes like the Mary Edwards Mountain Property, the Dismal Brook Wildlife Preserve, the Western Barndoor Hill, and the Seth and Lucy Holcombe Preserve. For a full list, visit GranbyLandTrust.org
We depend on the generosity of members like you, and every membership makes a difference.
Friends of Holcomb Farm
Friends of Holcomb Farm — Feb. 2026
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A building for our future, Celebrating Fresh Access apple harvest volunteers, and How the Holcomb Tree Trail started
Friends of Holcomb Farm
Dave Emery elected president of FOHF
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The second in the series of introducing the five new members of the Friends of Holcomb Farm Board of Directors.
Friends of Holcomb Farm
A season of rest, cover crops and growth
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One of the most exciting themes of the 2025 farm season was our decision to rest a significant number of fields by taking them out of vegetable production and keeping them cover-cropped. Cover cropping is a crucial investment for the overall health of the farm.
NOT WANTED
Multiflora rose: Invasive of the month
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This column began in 2019 with a series of Invasive of the Month columns focusing on nine of the most common, harmful, difficult-to-control invasive plants in our area. For those who didn’t laminate, frame or memorize those columns, this one restarts the series with updated information.