Land Stewardship, Inc.

11/14/2025

https://stewardshipnetwork.org/webcast/2025-11/
Great webinar! Don't miss it!

Join us for this episode to learn how invasive buckthorn can be mitigated with dense native revegetation.

10/13/2025

Last week's frost closed out the knotweed window.

10/10/2025

Look who came out to join his old man cutting JK. What a treat!

08/25/2025

Had the pleasure of working with Freddie Gillespie and Joyce Greenleaf with the SB Stewardship Committee yesterday at Breakneck Hill Conservation Land in Southborough, MA. We tugged out a whole lot of porcelainberry growing in the sumac. Freddie does incredible work for the native bees and I am inspired every time I visit her. Please come to one of her open houses like this one coming up: https://www.ecolandscaping.org/new-events-calendar/

08/25/2025

We've been managing ip's along a 5 mile stretch of the Westfield River near Chesterfield Gorge for DCR for nearly 10 years. The results are amazing. Sure there's a little knotweed here and there, but nothing like it was. Special thanks to Jess Applin who managed this project for many years. You did a great job!

07/18/2025

New client in Maine. This knotweed is too close for comfort!

06/21/2025

Phase 2 Seeding Cover Crop Complete.
Cultipacking and seeding buckwheat cover crop at Millers Meadow Greenfield MA with Bruce Scherer, Heritage Fields Farm.
The soil was fluffy after the second disk harrow about two weeks ago. That means that a footprint sinks about an inch. Seeds need a firm seed bed, that's why we used the cultipacker to firm things up. Seeding took place next followed by even more cultipacking to snug the seed into the soil a half inch or so. We'll have thunderstorms next week due to the hot weather. I'll keep an eye on the germination and document in subsequent photos.

06/03/2025

New Japanese knotweed management vid:

Quick intro to results of managing Japanese knotweed for 10+ years

05/21/2025

Phase 1 Native pollinator meadow soil prep complete. Millers Meadow, Greenfield, MA
Special thanks to Bruce Scherer of Heritage Fields Farm for making it happen.

03/01/2025

Thanks Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions (MACC) for hosting another great conference! Met a lot of great people doing extraordinary things for the natural world. Very inspiring.

02/25/2025

Video about phragmites/common reed management on a coastal site:

Phragmites/Common reed management small site. This video demonstrates management at a small coastal site in active management for phragmites australis/common...

11/23/2024

What the heck! Bruce Scherer. You told me this was perfectly safe. We did this all the time in Longmeadow!