What We’ve Been Up To

The mild winter day encouraged many people to be out at the Mass Central Rail Trail off Church Street in Ware on January 1st, 2023. Over fifty people and dogs joined the group walk to welcome the new year together. … Continued

A big thank you to Kelly, Kristin, John, Andy, Ron, Jesse, Dick, Anne-Marie, Louise, Jeff, Dee and Cynthia for their hard work finishing up a few projects before winter at Little Marshy Meadow. That included transplanting several dogwoods that were … Continued

The 11th annual Station Loop Ramble went off without a hitch. Runners, their families and a large cadre of volunteers celebrated fall at the Mass Central Rail Trail in New Braintree and Hardwick. The women’s 5-mile course record was set … Continued

We celebrated the completion of construction on the Mass Central Rail Trail portion off Church Street in Ware with a ribbon cutting on September 8th. Trail advocates and users, conservationists, neighbors and legislators all shared in the excitement of this … Continued

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 Summer Raffle: Winter CSA share from Still Life Farm in Hardwick – Eleanor Downey Season Passes for Two at the Cultural Center at Eagle Hill in Hardwick – Eleanor Werle … Continued

Eleven awesome prizes are available for lucky winners this summer. Tickets are $10 each or $45 for five. Prizes will be drawn on August 20th at 3pm. To get your tickets contact Cynthia at [email protected]. We thank the following businesses … Continued

Wildlife Tracking Station installed at Mandell Hill Scientists across the northeast that are exploring the migration patterns of all sorts of critters are collaborating to get the real-time data on where their study creatures are traveling too and from. A … Continued

Today we headed out to the site for the new Pocket Park on 5 Foster Hill Road in West Brookfield to cleanup the area. What an awesome crew of folks who hopped right in to clear out under the trees … Continued

Jess and Louisa had a blast planting a pollinator garden with families at the Ware Library yesterday! Thanks to funding from Keep Massachusetts Beautiful, this space is full of 8 species of (soon to be) colorful native plants. There was … Continued

We saw 38 species during our birding walk at Frohloff Farm yesterday! Here’s a peek at some of the species, which include a juvenile bale eagle. Join us at our next birding walk on Friday, May 13th, at 8am at … Continued