. Weston’s Conservation Department continues its educational and hands-on Invasive Plant series with Japanese knotweed today, Tuesday, May 16, and Saturday, May 20 from 10 am to 12 pm. If you are not familiar with Japanese knotweed, you actually are…its beautiful and very very invasive very bad self is all over Weston. The Owl tries not to be judge-y about
Read more. Do I need to write of the Owl’s deep and abiding love for Lincoln Land Conservation Trust? To sum it up, the Owl loves LLCT because of all she has learned from their programs, as well as the work they do on maintaining the second-best conservation lands in MetroWest, as well as their pollinator plant sale and programs. Also
Read more. So technically the Owl is not back yet but realized she forgot to post about one of her favorite events today at Town Green–Garlic Mustard Annihilation! Yes, Weston, it’s kill or be killed–well, not really, but that garlic mustard will take over your native plants and who needs it, except to make some awesome pesto? Here are the details:
Read more. On the southside of Weston, there is a beautiful neighborhood with a narrow winding road, open hillside field and conservation woods. Colloquially known as the Orchard Avenue neighborhood, it’s a quiet pastoral respite with an extensive and important history of estate homes and land conservation efforts. For a short history of the area, read this article in the Wellesley
Read more. Sit down, everyone, grab a cup of tea, and read the Owl’s favorite story about Weston. The last part of the story, regarding the purchase of College Pond land in 1977, is one of the best of Weston lore and is covered not only in Pamela Fox’s From Farm Town to Suburb but in a slightly longer and more
Read more. Join Weston Forest & Trail Association for its monthly walk this Sunday, April 2 at 2 pm at the largest of Weston’s Conservation properties (547 acres)–the gorgeous, green and currently loud (with amphibians) Jericho Town Forest. WFTA has been hosting Sunday walks for over sixty years, and the April walk is the second-to-last of the walk calendar (May 7
Read more. At some point, the Owl is going to agitate for Invasive Plants to be renamed “Marauding Plants” so that there was a bit more urgency to their removal from local yards, open spaces and Conservation properties. By definition, a marauder is someone (or something in this case) “who roams from place to place making attacks and raids in search
Read more. As long-time readers know, the Owl is a huge fan of Lincoln Land Conservation Trust and Lincoln Conservation. Not only do they manage some wonderful Conservation spaces, but they have fantastic educational programs which are sometimes live and sometimes on zoom, and next week, Tuesday March 14 at 7 pm, you can learn about the buzzy bees in your
Read more. There is nothing that makes this town as crazy, if I may say so, as a proposed new By-Law. Nothing. Not even school budgets though those come in a close second. So before we come into Yard Sign Season (and please no Dr. Seuss copyright issues this year), here’s a suggestion: listen to the information presented and then make
Read more. UPDATE 3/16/2023: This activity is ON for this Saturday. The trails are clear enough! +++ Join Weston Conservation Staff and WFTA volunteers to construct a new footbridge at the Chestnut Street Conservation Land and repair some existing bog bridges on trails behind the Woodland School. Work will involve carrying lumber into the site, basic construction and assembly of a
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