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Great Read-Learn-Plan-Do Resources
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Action against invasives never ends. Put your feet up and choose from the following resources to boost your long-term game. They have been purposely chosen because they address plants in our region.
Great Outdoors
Rejuvenating the Grange
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The Granby Grange #5 last reorganized in 1926 and has served the community and region with impactful service during those 96 years, while providing a fraternal organization for residents and businesses interested in promoting agriculture, conservation, and small-town living.
Great Outdoors
Robins in the winter?!
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Hikers on Holcomb Farm’s Tree Trail pass a large kiosk on their way up the initial hill. The kiosk’s front side has a map of the trails; the back side has seasonal information on trees, biological processes and birds. The new bird information that went up this month is about robins that we see in Granby during the winter.
Granby Land Trust
Granby Land Trust celebrates 50th anniversary at its annual meeting
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About 75 members of the Granby Land Trust gathered at the Holcomb Farm North Barn on Oct. 23 for a 50th Anniversary Celebration Potluck Dinner.
Granby Land Trust
New sugar maple at Mary Edwards Property
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On Oct. 19, the Granby Land Trust planted a young sugar maple near the iconic, old sugar maple in the front field on the GLT’s Mary Edwards Mountain Property.
Friends of Holcomb Farm
Holcomb Farm preserved
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One of the Friends’ strategic goals is to “grow the growing season,” and in New England that means greenhouses aka hoophouses. In February 2019, Mother Nature decided to challenge that goal with 70 mph winds, which took down what was then our beloved Greenhouse #6 (GH6), home to our best chemical-free spinach.
Great Outdoors
Farm chores pave the way for Holcomb Farm worker’s future career
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Although she wasn’t born here, Holcomb Farm employee Michelle Dingivan’s childhood memories were set in Granby, for she was only three years old when her family moved here from Hluboka, Czechia. One of those early memories was a third-grade field trip to what was then the educational center at the Farm.
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WANTED: Sign Designs
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Got a way with words and pictures? Care about the health of Granby’s birds and bees? Submit a Pro-Pollinator Sign Design.
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Long-term Conservation and Sustainability Plan for Holcomb Farm passes unanimously
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After almost three hours of input and discussion among interested parties on Oct. 17, the Board of Selectmen voted unanimously to approve a proposal that gives town-owned Holcomb Farm a long-term Granby Land Trust conservation easement and a path to sustainability.
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Wildlife Meadow will be studied by UMass team
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The recently-planted Granby Wildflower Meadow at 175 Salmon Brook Street has been chosen for a five-year study of insect pollinator networks led by a team at UMass Amherst. The study is designed to better understand the relationship between pollinator habitat and the diversity and abundance of bees.