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September Radio Interview

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September Radio Interview

In September Both EQLT board member Chris Buelow and farmer Ridge Shinn spoke about the land stewardship being practiced at Mandell Hill, stewardship that combines agriculture and ecological values. The grazing practices on all these fields are modified to facilitate successful breeding by grassland breeding bird species.

To hear the Sept. interview,click here.

Read the printed interview.

Chris Buelow noted “One of our major intentions of this property is also to work as a model for the community, to show how working profitable agriculture can be compatible with sustainable ecology, especially with grassland birds. A lot of these farmers who were very skeptical of what we were doing back in 2003 and 2004 and who said they couldn’t work with a lease like this, are now approaching Ridge and approaching us, and saying you know I’ve been watching what you guys are doing and we are starting to see how this could work.”

Mandell Hill is a 200-acre farm overlooking the Ware River valley to the east of Hardwick center. According to the EQLT’s brochure, “Historically, the fields were pasture or produced hay and corn. The woods are largely mixed hardwoods and occupy the steepest and rockiest portions of the property. An abandoned apple orchard on Barre Road provides food and cover for wildlife.”

To learn more about the East Quabbin Land Trust, visit their website at www.eqlt.org/FieldNotes.html.

Naturalist Laurie Sanders each week reports on the ecology and environment of New England for WFCR. Additional programs can be found here: www.wfcr.org/field_notes/index.html.

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