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!
Great Outdoors
Rhubarb pie is a spring delicacy
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Well, spring has arrived and not only is our world turning green again, but the rhubarb is flourishing! This is a tried-and-true recipe from my mom.
Friends of Holcomb Farm — June 2024
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Farming News, Shop at Our Farm Store All Summer Long, SNAP? Double SNAP!, Connecticut Trails Day, New Trees on the Tree Trail – Thank You to Our Funders!, and Notes from the Farm Office (aka Cat’s Corner): The Collaborative Nature of Our Community
The Garden Corner
Prepping new seedlings for moving outside
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Hello garden friends. The month of May brings longer days and warmer evenings. The sounds of peepers and birds fill our days and nights with song, and many are thinking about planting gardens and moving indoor starter plants outside.
Events
Learn about busy beavers at Dismal Brook Wildlife Preserve
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Come join the Granby Land Trust for a roughly 90-minute, family-friendly walk at the GLT’s Dismal Brook Wildlife Preserve to investigate the world of beavers.
Events
History and arts hike set for Trails Day
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The Torrington Trails Network and Torrington Historical Society will conduct a Trails Day Hike from the John Brown Birthplace site on John Brown Road, Torrington on June 1 at 10 a.m.