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Bonnie < Back 4 Coach Drive I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy.

Perry < Back 625 Butts Hollow Rd I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy. www.perryhillfarm.com We do things differently at Perry Hill Farm. We are part of the United Plant Savers Botanical Sanctuary Network. Our woods and meadows are home to numerous rare and threatened plants, and many “common” plants who are declining throughout their ranges for a multitude of reasons. We feel that landownership is not a privilege, but a responsibility; a responsibility to the other-than-human persons we share this land with. Our stewardship of this land involves controlling invasive species; managing the numbers of deer, who, in their overpopulation, threaten a great many plants and animals that are sadly disappearing from the region; and using forestry as a tool to improve the health and resiliency of our forest. We are rewarded for this work by an abundance of edible, medicinal and just simply beautiful wild plants. We protect plants because this is their home as well as ours.

Kimberly < Back 3042 Saratoga Drive I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy.

Welcome to the Essex Pollinator Pathway Join the Essex Pollinator Pathway The Essex Pollinator Pathway (17 plus acres) got its start in 2016 when the Essex Land Trust (ELT), in partnership with the Essex Garden Club (EGC) established a 300 square foot Pollinator Garden at Cross Lots, one of the ELT properties in town. The Pollinator Garden started with dozens of native nectar plants providing important food for birds, native bees, bats, and a variety of butterflies. Some of the more visible flowering plants are Monarda (Bee Balm), Agastache (Giant Hyssop), Echinacea (Cone Flower), Iron Weed, and Aster. The ELT has since managed the initial garden and has enabled two-thirds of the 17-acre property to go to native meadows during the growing seasons. Read about the Essex Pollinator Pathway - Essex Historical Society Welcomes the Birds and the Bees with Pollinator Garden Our Anchor Gardens Pollinator Garden at Cross Lots. est. 2016 Address: 40 West Avenue, Essex, CT Diz Callender’s Perennial Garden, Osage Trails, est.2018-2019 Address: Foxboro Road, Essex, CT Pratt House Pollinator Garden, Historic Pratt House, est.2020 Address: 19 West Avenue, Essex, CT Brochures that identify the garden plants are available on the side of the Cross Lots kiosk. In addition to a list of the blooms, the brochure also indicates bloom times and pollinators that favor each plant. The bloom cycle starts in mid-April and continues through September. The brochure can also be used as a planting guide if you wish to establish your own pollinator garden to help support the food chain. Osage Trails In 2018 the Essex Land Trust (ELT) decided to revitalize the nearly 1,800 square foot perennial garden that was originally part of an eight-acre park like property donated to the ELT 20 years earlier. The property is now known as Osage Trails. The garden beds were cleared of years of debris to uncover what was left of the original plantings. In 2019 things started to come back to life revealing original plantings of Iris, Daffodils, Black-eyed Susan, Butterfly bush, Lilacs and Butterfly weed. More natives including New England Aster, Common Milkweed, Hyssop, Bee Balm and Penstemon were added to the original plantings by ELT Volunteers. In its second season, the garden is a buzz with an ever-growing population of bees, butterflies, and birds. The Pratt House Pollinator Garden In 2020, the Essex Historic Society offered the use of an area on The Pratt House Historic Property for a new pollinator garden. A group of individuals representing the Essex Historic Society (EHS), Essex Land Trust (ELT), Essex Garden Club (EGC), Essex Sustainability Committee and River COG came together and established a new pollinator garden. Almost 200 plants creating a selection of 40 different varieties of natives and perennials known to benefit native bees, birds and butterflies were planted across 2/3 of the 1500 square foot space. The balance of the garden is targeted for planting in 2021. The project fits in with the growing concern to help support our food chain by providing pollinator pockets with the hope of establishing a pathway in the Northeast. Join the pathway with a few simple steps at home: Create a pollinator pocket plant a window box or a container with native pollinator plants provide a source of clean water plant some of your lawn with native plantings including flowers, shrubs, and trees Leave leaf litter on garden beds to over-winter, creating safe places for insects and their babies Rethink your lawn! Mow higher and less often. Leave the clippings on the grass as fertilizer rather than adding chemicals Consider the use of slow-release organic fertilizers if you do need to fertilize Plant native ground cover within your lawn Our way of life is being affected by pesticides, herbicides and the promotion and sale of poison carrying, non-native, and sterile plants. Establishing Pollinator Gardens to establish a contiguous corridor for pollinators plays an important role in environmental recovery. Join the Essex Pollinator Pathway

Paula < Back 22 Merchant Ave I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy.

Dana < Back 10 Cobblestone Lane I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy.

< Back Harwinton Land Trust Indian Meadow I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy. A Pollinator Garden.

Sarah < Back The Old Vicarage I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy. Small prunus tree Two large Acer Huge fig Olives 2 Lavender Ceanothus 2 Bay tree

Nora < Back 14 Shand Ave I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy. native trees and pollinator garden beside vegetable box. Ash sugar maple, Japanese lilac, red oak, burr oak, sumac, service berry,

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< Back 4285 Oak Hill Rd I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy. Property features meadows, wetlands, shrub hedgerows, and seepage swamp woods adjoining hundreds of acres of conserved woods and wetlands. Abundant native trees, shrubs, forbs, and grasses provide cover, forage, and nesting habitat. Large populations of native wildflowers: Asclepias syriaca, Caltha palustris, Iris versicolor, Eupatorium perfoliatum, Eutrochium maculatum, Lysimachia terrestris, Solidago spp. X 4, Symphyotrichum novae-angliae and other spp., Verbena hastata, and many others plus numerous spring ephemerals.