Building Unity Farm Sanctuary - Fifth Week of April 2017

Several folks have contacted me, wondering why the pace of my blog posting has slowed a bit in April.  Don ’t worry - all is well on the farm and sanctuary, it’s just spring planting, maintenance, and trail building time.  The snow has melted, the weather is mild and the plants/animals need more attention that ever.Here ’s what we’ve been up to over the past two weeks.  The adjacent landowner to Unity Farm and Sanctuary is the Sherborn Rural Land Foundation and they ’ve asked for our help maintaining their protected land.  I ’ve expanded our trail system to cover 60 acres with over 3 miles of paths as pictured below.  We now have 18 trails and 8 bridges that traverse through ecosystems ranging from dry oak to wildflower meadow to fern grottos.  Each bridge weighs about 500 pounds, so hauling all that lumber into the forest means that I walk about 15 miles per weekend day.The new paths (in the black square box below)) enable us to connect to theBay Circuit trail (in red below)- a 200 mile path from Newburyport, MA in the north to Duxbury, MA in the south.  It ’s fair to say that Unity Farm and Sanctuary paths enable 100 mile walks in each direction!Part of maintaining wild forests is removing a century of garbage that others have thoughtlessly dumped there.  I removed over a ton of debris from the farm forests and a ton of debris from the sanctuary property.  I removed a sim...
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