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Meadow planting day June 4, 2022
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Several people showed up to plant wildflower plugs in the meadow across from Maple View Farm on Salmon Brook Street.
Friends of Holcomb Farm
Friends of Holcomb Farm
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After months and months of hard work in the “off” season, our amazing Farm Crew was excited to open the Farm Store to the public on June 14, and to welcome Summer 2022 CSA members to the farm.
What’s for supper?
What’s for Supper? Regalado Orzo Salad
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As we head into picnic and cookout season, this recipe will hopefully be one of your new favorites.
Friends of Holcomb Farm
Tree Trail Update: The Impressive Northern Catalpa
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The Holcomb Tree Trail is a small arboretum on the Town-owned, 312-acre Holcomb Farm in West Granby. Volunteers planted its first 16 trees in October 2018. Some of those trees, including a Princeton Elm, are now more than 15 feet tall. Planting has continued, with the total plantings now numbering about 80 trees. One of the design principles has been to plant trees with spring blooms or fall color—or both.
Great Outdoors
Holcomb Tree Trail receives prestigious Civic Improvement Commendation
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It was not long ago that the East fields of Holcomb Farm, the 100-acre hill across the street from the main farm complex, was an overgrown pasture thick with oriental bittersweet, wild grapes, Japanese barberry, and multiflora rose.
Great Outdoors
Making their corner a better place
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For years, Rick Orluk and Trish Percival maintained the vegetation on the little island at the intersection of Higley and Silkey Roads. Their vigilance kept it from being paved over, but the plants growing there were planted long before their time and included the invasive Japanese barberry and non-native forsythia.
Great Outdoors
Connecticut Wine Country mobile app launched at Lost Acres Vineyard
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A few years ago, Granby’s own Michelle Niedermeyer, owner along with Kevin Riggott of Lost Acres Vineyard, was instrumental in the formation of a Connecticut Wine Country Passport Program in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture and the Winery Council.
Granby Land Trust
Signs of spring on the Land Trust’s properties
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“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.
Great Outdoors
Even horses love Stop & Shop
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Stop & Shop Store Manager Tony Morrone realized many customers are horse people so he reached out to the largest family horse business in the surrounding area, the Strain Family Horse Farm, for a meet and greet.
Friends of Holcomb Farm
Friends of Holcomb Farm
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As you talk to your neighbors about their gardens this summer, don’t be surprised if a number of them say they got their start at the Friends’ May Plant sales.