Land lovers from across the region and beyond are supporting local land conservation for this year’s Give Back to the Land online giving day. Hilltown Land Trust is teaming up again with other regional land trusts to raise money to support the needs of the community for climate change mitigation, carbon capture and storage, water […]
Supporting the Places that Matter to Them
Drew Johnson and Angelina Altobellis fell in love with each other around the same time they fell in love with Western Massachusetts. They met attending UMass-Amherst, and after a few moves to other parts of the country, returned to the area to settle down. They wanted a place that was “quiet, with a friendly, laid-back […]
Cold Weather and Community
By Sarah Welch, Community Engagement Coordinator and TerraCorps-AmeriCorps service member Every year, Hilltown Land Trust’s Community Engagement Coordinator helps publicize and lead the All Out Adventures (AOA) senior snowshoeing program at the DAR State Forest as part of a long-standing partnership. HLT is happy to support the work of our partners at AOA, who create […]
Celebrating Our Volunteers
In March, Hilltown Land Trust staff and TerraCorps members hosted twenty-five people for our annual Volunteer Celebration in the event space at the Chesterfield General Store. Volunteers are essential to achieving HLT’s mission of land conservation and stewardship. From clearing branches off trails, to taking photographs and registering runners and walkers at the Gorge après […]