Emerald Ash Borer
Get active about the Emerald Ash Borer in Plainfield!
Plainfield Tree Planting Guide
Download the Plainfield Tee Planting Guide. This guide is designed to help you choose trees to plant or favor along the road, in particular, but also on your property. There, however, because of the absence of the many stressors that make life difficult for trees along the road, you have more choices. In the guide,…
Going Native
Plainfield farmer Anna Hanchett explains the ecological importance of planting native trees, shrubs, and flowers
Hilltowns Responding to Environmental Crises
Seeing fewer birds and bees? Check out the Plainfield Tree Alliance Winter series to learn about planting, insects, birds, and the health of our ecosystem
PLAINFIELD’S FIRST ARBOR DAY CELEBRATION, APRIL 27-28, 2019
Thanks to the International Society of Arboriculture and Eversource for their support Wait a minute for slideshow to load. To move faster, click on the images.Photographers: Polly Ryan, Elizabeth Lambert, Melissa Hancock, and Roxanne Shearer 2019 ARBOR DAY WEEKEND – PROGRAMS MORE ON ARBOR DAY “The Roots of Arbor Day in America” (Freedom’s Way Natural…
Eversource is widening its clearing for transmission lines. An explanation is needed.
By Polly Ryan Guest posts reflect the views of the author only. A project Eversource will be conducting sometime this year in Plainfield and many other communities in Massachusetts raises grave concerns. They’re calling it the “Reliability Project” and it involves cutting a lot of trees in the transmission power line rights-of-way across all of…
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