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Immerse yourself in New England’s natural beauty at the Granby Land Trust’s 15th annual juried art show, open through Sunday, Nov. 27, at Lost Acres Vineyard, 80 Lost Acres Road in North Granby. Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday from 12 to 6 p.m., Sunday from 12 to 5 p.m.
In the last two years, many nonprofit organizations in town have celebrated anniversary milestones.
In its quarterly publication, Connecticut Woodlands, the Connecticut Forest and Park Association recently featured photos of a Granby Land Trust hike led by board member Jen Plourde.
“At last came the golden month of the wild folk—honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents and songs of the dawning year.”
— Samuel Scoville Jr.
What’s your favorite thing about living in Granby? If you said, “the rural feel,” “the access to nature,” or “the farms and open space,” then we hope you will consider joining the Granby Land Trust.
If you enjoy hiking in the Granby Land Trust’s preserves, you have probably noticed on the kiosks at the entrances to the properties that there is information on how you can download a map of the trails therein. The man behind this technology, who also happens to have made the kiosks, is Steve Perry.
Granby Land Trust members Ann Wilhelm and Bill Bentley graciously invited the Granby Land Trust to join them and DEEP forester David Beers for a walk at Wilhelm Farm on Nov. 14. Providing food for the Wilhelm family from 1936 to 1990, the farm has now switched its emphasis to a managed forest that provides timber, songbird, deer, and small mammal habitat, and most important in this time of climate change, carbon sequestration and storage.
Named in memory of Olof Stevenson, who served as the caretaker on the Dismal Brook Wildlife Preserve for more than 50 years when it was privately owned, the new Olof Stevenson Award celebrates exemplary stewardship work by a member(s) of the Granby Land Trust.
About 20 Granby Land Trust members spent a Saturday morning in late October working to clean up the trails on the GLT’s Godard Preserve with its trail head located off Donahue Road in North Granby.
The land trust accreditation program recognizes land conservation organizations that meet national quality standards for protecting important natural places and working lands forever. The Granby Land Trust is applying for renewal of its accreditation.