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Oct
25
Have you ever considered making your land available for farming? This workshop with farm leasing experts Land for Good will help you understand your land’s potential for farming and what goes into a good farming arrangement.
Price: $0.00
Farmers in Essex County are looking for land to rent, from a small vegetable plot to livestock or crops. When you make land available to farmers you help secure a future for farming in our region, create economic opportunity, and preserve our working landscapes.
This workshop with farm leasing experts Land for Good will help you understand your land’s potential for farming and what goes into a good farming arrangement:
An evening workshop on Thursday, October 25th in Topsfield will be followed by a guided bus tour of leased farmlands on the morning of Friday, October 26th departing from Essex.
Thursday, October 25: 5:30pm – 8:30pm - Workshop at Gould Barn, 1 Howlett Street, Topsfield (Dinner included!)
Friday, October 26: 8am - 11am - Guided Tour of Leased Farmland (Alprilla Farm in Essex, Cedar Rock Gardens in West Gloucester, and Marini Farm in Ipswich). Tour to begin in Essex.
This workshop and tour are FREE but advanced registration is required. You may register for one or both days.
Land For Good has helped educate, advise and support thousands of non-farming landowners. They work with farm service providers, conservation organizations and communities to support landowners, increase farmland availability and foster good landowner-farmer agreements. In collaboration with researchers and policy makers, they advance policies and innovative working models that will increase farmland availability and foster equity and land stewardship.
Oct
27
Join us as we celebrate the opening of one of Greenbelt's newest reservations in Topsfield.
Price: $0.00
Join us as we celebrate the opening of one of Greenbelt's newest reservations in Topsfield.
Donibristle Reservation has a beautiful wooded hillside, featuring wide, extensive trails and towering mature oaks. The property abuts the permanently protected open space at English Commons, and the Donibristle trails connect to the English Commons public walking trail.
DATE: October 27
TIME: 10am - 11:30am
PLACE: Hill Street and Rowley Bridge Road, Topsfield
Learn more about the property at ecga.org/Property/Donibristle
Oct
28
Join author Peter Cristofono, a local rock and mineral expert, at the Jennie Lagoulis Reservation.
Price: $0.00
A place where local children have come to play in nature for more than 300 years, Jennie Lagoulis Reservation at Four Rock & Devil’s Den offers a unique landscape and biodiversity of uplands, wetlands and maritime forest.
Join author Peter Cristofono, a local rock and mineral expert, to explore Devil's Den and learn the storied history of this long-abandoned quarry.
When the quarries were abandoned, the land became a place for summer recreation where imaginative children added tales of sorcery, renaming the cave Devil’s Den.
WHEN: Sunday, October 28
TIME: 1:00 - 3:00 PM
WHERE: Jennie Lagoulis Reservation, Newbury
FREE
