Come learn about edible and medicinal spring wildflowers with herbalist Ali Zimmer in this 11-minute video.
Apple tree pruning: the joy of making ramial mulch
Up at Vermont Family Forests’ Wells Farm in Lincoln, we’ve done some pretty significant pruning of the 50 or so apple trees in the farm’s orchard. We bucked the larger-diameter branches for firewood. But we’re feeding the nitrogen-packed smaller branches and twigs right back to the trees they came from, creating white-fungus-enhancing ramial mulch. Apple trees are deciduous trees, native …
One dark and rainy night: Up close with Spotted Salamanders
by Sandra Murphy Water rose around my boots as I stepped through the meadow grass by the little pond on VFF’s Anderson Guthrie-Bancroft land in Lincoln. As happens each spring, snowmelt and rainfall had saturated the meadow soil around the pond and blurred the boundary between water and land. On that wet April night, wood frogs chuckled and clucked in …
A Spring Salamander’s Eye View of Forest Health
Spring salamanders need clear, cold, highly oxygenated, pesticide-free streams and springs. David Brynn explores how commoners can help.
VFF’s Abenaki Cultural Use Land Access Project: Mutually Beneficial Relationship in Action
With the help of Middlebury College students, VFF is launching a project to facilitate mutually beneficial access to private forestlands for Abenaki citizens.
The Ecological Disaster of Perpetual-Growth Economics
In this guest blog post, herpetologist Jim Andrews discusses the ecological impacts here at home wrought by our current economic model.
Climate-friendly Forests: An evening with Forest Ecologist Bill Keeton
Thursday, February 27, 2020 6:30 PM FREE ADMISSION Ilsley Library, Jessica Swift Community Room, 75 Main St., Middlebury, VT Join UVM Professor of Forest Ecology, Bill Keeton, as he explains how our forests can be more “carbon-friendly” in the face of a rapidly changing climate. Learn about the role of forests in keeping carbon out of the atmosphere, how carbon …
Wild Forests Are A Key Part of Vermont’s Working Landscape
We depend on forests for clean water, sequestered carbon, and wildlife habitat. It’s time to look beyond Vermont’s current “timber as default scenario.”
Upcoming Talk Explores the Myth of Infinite Economic Growth
On February 15, Dr. Jon Erickson will discuss the myth of infinite economic growth and steps toward a more resilient and fair economy.
Winter Solstice Celebration
Celebrate the solstice and welcome the returning light by Norton Brook Reservoir at The Waterworks. Saturday, December 21 from 3:30 – 5:30 pm.
