The group received a grant in 2010 to ecologically restore the unused mowed lawn on the Berkshire Hills Regional School District’s campus. We changed management habits so that six acres of lawn will only be brush-hogged once a year; we are removing invasive species and replanting those areas with shrubs and trees in upcoming years, and this year we are creating a 16,000 square foot wildflower meadow, a fruit orchard with 18 apple trees and 6 pear trees that will supplement the middle school’s cafeteria, a 2,000 square foot rain garden, and a cattail drainage ditch.
Down to the Roots
Our Purpose
to inspire others towards environmental activism and to reconnect humans and nature one seed at a time. Also, we wish to ecologically restore the unused mowed lawns on campus and provide food to the middle school cafeteria.