Welcome to the Willistown Conservation Trust Blog

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

Blake Goll – 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,...

Bird Conservation Conservation Interns, Co-Ops Nature

Back to School: Banding a purple martin colony

Blake Goll – July 5, 2019

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

Academic Partners Conservation Interns, Co-Ops Watershed

Meet our Watershed Protection Program co-ops!

Blake Goll – 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,...

Conservation Land Protection

Return on Environment: The Economic Value of Protected Open Space in Chester County, PA

Blake Goll – May 6, 2019

Protected open spaces provide substantial economic, environmental, and health benefits to surrounding communities, but these benefits are often overlooked or...

Bird Banding Bird ecology migration

For the Love of Birds

Blake Goll – November 14, 2018 – 1 Reply

Golden-crowned Kinglet banded on October 30th. Photo by Blake Goll On the morning before Halloween, the hedgerows and meadows of...

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

Bird Banding Bird ecology

Banders Seeing Purple

Blake Goll – October 28, 2018

Yellow-rumped Warbler (After Hatch Year male) banded Tuesday. Photo by Blake Goll This is the time of the season when...

Bird banding, fall songbird migration, migration, Myrtle Warbler, songbird banding, yellow-rumped warbler

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