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At first glance, Rushton Farm looks like your traditional example of small-scale intensive sustainable agriculture. Crops sit nestled within the landscape...

Interns, Co-Ops Stewardship

Meet Laryssa Terleckyj, our Stewardship Intern

Steve Ryan – July 30, 2019 –

Each summer, Willistown Conservation Trust hosts students who are pursuing degrees related to the conservation work we do here. We...

Conservation Nature Stewardship Watershed

You Have Options

Watershed Protection Team – July 23, 2019 –

Single-use cutlery, food containers, and straws are used for a few minutes and discarded to remain in the environment forever....

Farm Sustainable Agriculture

Water, water everywhere and lots and lots to drink

Fred De Long – July 19, 2019 –

WaEvery so often, a visitor or volunteer at the farm will ask if the water from our well is “safe”...

Conservation Nature Stewardship Watershed

Choose to refuse single-use coffee cups

Watershed Protection Team – July 16, 2019 –

Plastic and paper coffee cups are not recyclable in most locations. Even ‘compostable’ cups are rarely composted as they require...

Farm Sustainable Agriculture

Meet Henry’s Garden

Fred De Long – July 16, 2019 –

In 2012 Henry’s Garden was established in memory of Henry Jordan whose commitment to addressing issues of poverty and access...

Conservation Farm Nature Rushton Conservation Center Watershed

BYOB – Bring your own BAG

Watershed Protection Team – July 9, 2019 –

The average family accumulates about 60 plastic bags in only four trips to the grocery store. The majority of these...

Conservation Interns, Co-Ops Nature Stewardship Watershed

New Trees Breathe New Life into Ailing Streamside Meadow

Watershed Protection Team – July 9, 2019 –

In the haze of a steamy May morning, a team of volunteers, students, and Trust staff met in the dewy,...

Birds Conservation Interns, Co-Ops Nature

Back to School: Banding a purple martin colony

Steve Ryan – July 5, 2019 –

About a 15-minute drive from Willistown Conservation Trust are the Glen Mills Schools (GMS). While this private institution is closed...

Conservation Farm Rushton Conservation Center

Welcome to the Rushton Conservation Center

Kat Gord – July 2, 2019 –

Here at Willistown Conservation Trust, we take our commitment to protecting the land very seriously. Over the past fifteen years,...

Academic Partners Conservation Interns, Co-Ops Watershed

Meet our Watershed Protection Program co-ops!

Steve Ryan – July 1, 2019 –

Each summer, Willistown Conservation Trust hosts students who are pursuing degrees related to the conservation work we do here. We...

Conservation Nature Watershed

Refill Your Water Bottle

Lauren McGrath – July 1, 2019 –

Human reliance on commercially bottled water is one of the single largest contributors to plastic pollution. At Willistown Conservation Trust,...

Bird Banding Bird ecology migration

For the Love of Birds

Blake Goll – November 14, 2018 –

On the morning before Halloween, the hedgerows and meadows of Rushton were teeming with migratory birds that had descended on...

Bird banding, Bird Conservation, Brown Creeper, fall migration, Golden-crowned kinglet, kinglet, songbird migration

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