It's Ours ! The White Farmhouse and Five More Acres
Complete the Rushton Woods Preserve
On March 14th the Trust acquired the five-acre White Farmhouse parcel at Rushton Woods Preserve. This represents an important "piece of the puzzle" completing the now 86-acre preserve -- home of the Trust's Community Farm Program at Rushton Farm, the Rushton Woods Bird Banding Station, and miles of trails and natural areas open to the public every day.
The five acre parcel, marked with a star in green here, has long been a missing "piece of the puzzle" at Rushton Woods Preserve.
The parcel includes the
historic White Farmhouse, the omnipresent backdrop to so many of the Trust's photos of the picturesque Rushton Farm. The farmhouse is currently being restored for use as housing for farm staff and interns in the Rushton Farm Farmer Training Program. The new land is also the site of the Trust's future Conservation Research and Education Center. More information about those exciting new building plans will be outlined in The Sycamore newsletter, which will be available online and in your mailboxes in early April.
It's Ours! The White Farmhouse seen in the background of so many pictures of Rushton Farm is now part of the 86-acre Rushton Woods Preserve.
We are extremely grateful to our funding partners who made this acquisition possible:
Friends and Neighbors of Willistown Conservation Trust
Chester County
Preservation Partnership Program
Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Keystone Recreation, Park and Conservation Fund
The Pew Charitable Trusts
About Us
Willistown Conservation Trust works to preserve to preserve and manage the open land, rural character, scenic, recreational, historic, agricultural and natural resources of the Willistown area and nearby communities, and to share these unique resources with people of all ages and backgrounds to inspire, educate and develop a lifelong commitment to the land and the natural world.
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