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On Monday we picked up three female goats from Pine Island Community Farm to bring to Mckenzie Park to graze goutweed, which is an...

This Monday we had the privilege of presenting our internship experience to the Burlington Conservation Board! The Burlington...

by libby, August 4, 2021 Unfortunately we missed last weeks CSA due to an unfortunate cooking disaster (we have not quite cracked how to...

Our first brain child of this summer was developing an experiment to inform best practices surrounding goutweed eradication. Goutweed is...

We've discussed many different methods of manual invasive treatments for knotweed, but a relatively new and unexplored method of control...

The more time we spend at the Intervale the more I’m astounded by the number of projects and organizations that are constantly underway....

Follow along with our day in the life of a Burlington Wildways Rubenstein Perennial Intern!

Last Thursday, we helped Wildways prep a 90' pollinator strip along Intervale Road. Pollinators are on a worldwide decline and need our...

by libby, July 20, 2021 Week three of CSA and we had a special visitor this week, Beezy! Beezy is the amazing dog Nora is dog sitting who...

by libby, July 14 2021 Week two of the CSA and as much as we loved spending the entire day in the kitchen cooking up knotweed bars last...

Every Tuesday morning, a group of volunteers meets at the Intervale Center to spend three hours tackling the ubiquitous invasives that...

Pesticide, herbicide, fungicide: all of these words incite horror in our crunchy-granola, nature-loving hearts. For good reason, many of...

Gleaning with Hannah Baxter at Pitchfork Farm Marjorie: 7/8/2021 Last week, we tried our hand at “gleaning” with Hannah Baxter, the...

by libby, June 28 2021 One of the most enlightening parts of this internship is learning about the ins and outs of the struggles and...

Yesterday we made a Strawberry Japanese Knotweed Crumble. Knotweed has a similar taste to rhubarb—a lovely combination of bitter, sour,...

by libby. 6/25/21 As you are probably aware of by now, Nora, Marj, and I were in desperate need to find aggressive, deep-rooted native...

Today we helped release baby spiny softshell turtles at North Hero State Park. The Echo Leahy Center for Lake Champlain and VT Fish and...