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Explore with Us as Your Guide
From guided walks to garden tours, kids camps to outdoor concerts, we have lots of things to do near you >>

Explore on Your Own
Get out and explore 12 special places by following rhyming clues as a Quest Detective >>

Discover special places to play, picnic, and explore >>

How We Work & Who We Serve
Learn more about our passions, our programs, our partners, and more >>

Contact Us
Meet our team and get in touch >>

It’s not enough to save special places. Our reservations are catalysts, a means to inspire passion for the larger landscape around us through learning, discovery, and exploration.

It can start simple, like getting the kids out to meet our dairy cows or building new skills at a hands-on gardening workshop. But it can grow to so much more, like a teen gaining real-life work skills as a Youth Conservation Corps member or a volunteer sharing their skills and passion with others.

Whatever your own interests and passions, we invite you to start – and keep on – exploring.

 Veggies: Cabbage and Carrots Farmers Favorites!
Ever wondered what veggies farmers really dig? And, what about tasty recipes that use them? What we found out from our farmers might send you right to the kitchen.
As Cluck Would Have It As Cluck Would Have It
Genevieve Rajewski explains how the eat-local movement is hatching a new trend.
When I Grow Up When I Grow Up
Want to be a farmer? Former Trustees farm apprentices Melanie Hardy and Elizabeth Green offer insight and advice.