The Lincoln Garden Club recently created and installed a new flower bed with over 400 plants native to Massachusetts at the town-owned Station Park where Lincoln Road meets Ridge Road. “This native plant bed is a great example of how we can apply more sustainable landscaping practices at our homes without giving up on beauty….
agriculture and flora
Keeping things sheep-shape (Lincoln Through the Lens)
This photo of Lincoln resident Ellen Raja on her farm was featured at #23 in September’s Photos of the Month gallery in the Boston Globe. Readers may submit photos for consideration for Lincoln Through the Lens by emailing them to lincolnsquirrelnews@gmail.com. If your photo is published, you’ll receive credit in the Squirrel. Photos must be taken in…
Letter to the editor: be on the lookout for the Lindentree robin
To the editor: At the end of one of the June rains, I found a very “dead” little juvenile robin in our storm drain—except that he wasn’t, as I discovered when fishing him out. I dried him off, scraped off the unseemly gob of blood and something smooshing together the toes on his right foot,…
Five Corners flora (Lincoln Through the Lens, 7/1/15)
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Milk it for all it’s worth at Dairy Day
Drumlin Farm is celebrating National Dairy Month with Dairy Day on Saturday, June 13 (rain or shine) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The barns will be open on this special day for up-close access to our favorite dairy animals and the tasty treats they help us produce. Highlights include exclusive milking access to Drumlin Farm’s dairy…
Lincoln resident dies in tractor accident
Oxbow Road resident Lenore Travis, who died unexpectedly late last month, was remembered for her agriculture-focused volunteer work and as a longtime member of the Shady Hill School community.
Spotlight on CCF volunteer Savannah Snell
The following item is reprinted from the Codman Community Farms newsletter with permission. Savannah Snell, a Lincoln resident and senior at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, is a volunteer animal feeder at Codman Community Farms and has been coming in once a week for the last two years. Savannah connected with the farm when she participated in the Farmer’s…
When the cows come home (Lincoln through the lens, 11/25/14)
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Website offers images of autumn around Farrar Pond
Here are some photos and captions by Alaric Naiman, who edits an online journal about the Farrar Pond area at https://fpond.org with pictures, maps, history and geography of the pond and its environs. Click on one of the small images below to see a larger version as well as the entire slideshow. “There’s no meditation more enriching than…
Moo is the fairest of them all? (Lincoln through the lens, 10/19/14)
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