Great Outdoors
Quick thinking by Abalans saves fawn
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On the morning of June 1, the Granby Police Department received a report of a deer giving birth on Running Pine Road.
Friends of Holcomb Farm
Friends of Holcomb Farm — July/August 2024
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Come to our first Holcomb Hoedown!, The farm store is open for the season, Nassau Financial Group spends a day on the Farm, new trail map, other news, and Cat’s Corner: It’s okay to not love kale.
The Garden Corner
Growing the perfect tomato
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We are hot and heavy into our summer season, and our flower and vegetable gardens are bursting with growth and color.
Great Outdoors
Lucy’s Picnic Salad
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I can still recall how much my mom loved this salad! And if any readers remember Mary Cook, when she liked something — you knew it!
Great Outdoors
Blueberries are gems in summer’s crown
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It’s easy to be happy in the summer, surrounded as we are by the magnificent beauty of the natural world.
Great Outdoors
It takes a village to make a garden grow!
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What do you get when you join committed volunteers, generous businesses, and a responsive town department? A Granby Community Garden to be very proud of!
Great Outdoors
The Bluebirds are back!
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Bluebirds are being welcomed all over town this spring! Whether it has anything to do with climate change, it seems that there are more than usual appearing in our backyards. In addition to having difficulty contending with killing winter temperatures, another factor in their dwindling numbers in our area during the past several decades is that house wrens, tree swallows, alien house sparrows and starlings have crowded the gentle blues out of nearly all available nesting places.
Events
Granby Grange hosting fair on Open Farm Day
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The Granby Grange is holding an Agricultural Fair on Saturday, Sept. 14 that will coincide with Granby Open Farm Day. The Grange invites home producers to enter products from their gardens, kitchens, cameras and craft rooms for judging and to show off your skills to residents and out of town visitors alike.
Great Outdoors
Vineyard is new home for tulip farm
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A pick-your-own tulip experience at a local vineyard last month was just in time for warm weather and springtime outings.
Great Outdoors
GLT Bird Walks identify nearly 60 species, including a loon
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At the GLT’s annual Mother’s Day Bird Walks, participants identified —either by sight or sound — nearly 60 species of birds, including a Virginia rail, a pair of scarlet tanagers, and, for the first time ever at Dismal Brook, a loon!