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This year’s turnip harvest at Sugar Hill Farm. All produce we raise is donated to the Food Bank for Westchester. Turnip Harvest

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Page 1: Westchester Land Trust Events

This year’s turnip harvest at Sugar Hill Farm. All produce we raise is donated to the Food Bank for

Westchester.

Turnip Harvest

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Cardinal Flowers

Planting native cardinal flowers at Pound Ridge Land Conservancy’s Armstrong Preserve

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Curtis Instruments

WLT staffers test drive an electric vehicle owned by Curtis Instruments, our neighbors in Mt. Kisco

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Dent Corn

Heirloom dent corn is milled into cornmeal for Food Bank for Westchester

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Trees for Tribs

Saplings planted through Watershed Agricultural Council’s ‘Trees for Tribs’ program are measured and monitored at Hunter Brook Preserve

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Quest

If you haven’t done the Quest at Hunter Brook Preserve, you’re missing out. Fun for all ages.

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Leon Levy Preserve

Town Supervisor Peter Parsons along with Shelby White, trustee of The Jerome Levy Foundation break ground for parking access at Leon Levy Preserve

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NY Botanical Garden

New York Botanical Garden’s Dr. Scott Mori shows WLT’s Candace Schafer botanical samples taken this summer at the Westchester Wilderness Walk/Zofnass Family Preserve

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WWW/Zofnass Family PreserveNew York Botanical Gardens researchers conduct an inventory of the mosses and lichens on the Westchester Wilderness Walk/Zofnass Family Preserve

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Invasive Strike Force

Invasive species on display during the Invasives Strike Force training at Sugar Hill Farm with New York New Jersey Trails Conference volunteers

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Invasives Training

NYNJTC volunteers put their training on invasive species into action.

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Invasives Training

NYNJTC volunteers put their training on invasive species into action.

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Invasives Training

NYNJTC’s Dr. Linda Rohleder leads a seminar on invasive plant species

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Otter Creek

WLT staffers join colleagues from The Nature Conservancy at Otter Creek Preserve in Mamaroneck

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Hudson Ramble

WLT board member & Westchester Wilderness Walk creator, Paul Zofnass, leads hikers on the trails as part of the Hudson River Ramble

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Volunteers

Volunteers from Regeneron pitch in at Sugar Hill Farm

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Food Bank

Visitors from Food Bank for Westchester tour the fields at Sugar Hill Farm

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Sugar Hill Farm Potatoes

Digging up new potatoes

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Hunter Brook Preserve

Blue Star Youth Movement—a program of Something Good in the World—hikes the Hunter Brook Preserve in Yorktown

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Food Bank for Westchester

Food Bank for Westchester’s Doug DeCandia uses traditional techniques to thresh the dried bean crop at Sugar Hill Farm

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Conservation Cafe

The latest Conservation Café series at Pace University highlighted the presence of radioactive gas in our local pipelines

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Hudson Ramble

A band of merry hikers at Westchester Wilderness Walk/Zofnass Family Preserve