Restoring Our Conservation Land

Conservation Stewardship

We work to ensure that the land can support a healthy biodiversity of plants, insects, birds, and other wildlife.

We provide workshops and volunteer opportunities to educate our community about the importance of conservation and being good stewards of the land.

The farm is situated amidst 140 acres of land of which approximately 119 acres was placed under a conservation easement in 1980. While this land has been protected from development by the White family, it is nonetheless in need of restoration due to the constant threat of invasive plant species that threaten the biodiversity of the land.

Our conservation volunteers work to remove invasive plants, restore native plants, and ensure that the land can support a healthy biodiversity of plants, insects, birds and other wildlife.

Get Involved

We have opportunities for groups, individuals, social clubs and businesses! You can get hands-on with us to help increase biodiversity in this important refuge. It's hard work, but extremely important and fulfilling especially given the pace of development in our region in recent years. Projects include helping to clear invasive species from the land, planting native plants, and more, to help protect wildlife, birds and insects.

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Native Meadow

In 2022-2023 staff and volunteers worked incredibly hard to help us introduce a 'native meadow' to better support at-risk insects such as the Monarch butterfly and the Golden Northern Bumble Bee! This half-acre meadow consists of over 500 native plant seedlings that we started here on the farm from seed! We are excited to report that the spring and summer of 2023 marked our first year successfully attracting numerous pollinators to the area!

Aid for Birds

Our conservation programs aid birds by increasing the health of the land upon which they rely. In 2020, we installed a kestrel nesting box near our native meadow project and we are ramping up the planting of beneficial and native plants.

Endangered Wildflowers & Other Native Plants

Holly Hill is home to one of the South Shore's best remaining stands of endangered spring ephemeral wildflowers and other native plants that are disappearing elsewhere in our region. This 140 acres of land with diverse habitats for migrating songbirds, hawks and owls, grey and red foxes, fisher cats, and other wildlife is an important part of our conservation programs.