This month Boxerwood achieved a long term goal: we’ve created a new garden of native plants to beautify the approach to the Lodge, rehabilitating an area that had been largely taken over by invasive species. The garden was designed by Eli Kosarin, a talented landscape professional who has been working at Boxerwood as an independent contractor for the last year. …
Paying It Forward
Kudos to 18 Maury River Middle students, who one Friday after school last month, planted three dozen trees along a tributary of Woods Creek. Most of the students were members of the Boxerwood Bay Club, committed to local give-back action after a fall trip to the Chesapeake Bay. The project was in partnership with Rockbridge Conservation, owner of the property, …
Join the Rumpus
Hello Rockbridge Friends! We are producing another original spectacle at Boxerwood to be performed October 14 -15, 2023 and welcome your help. A WILD NOTION is an ecological call to action and hope, concerning three Rockbridge County youth who have forgotten how to dream. Dany, Iris and Maxine are called into the woods by forest emissaries to search for and …
One Project, 434 Citizen Scientists
March 2023 This month 103 households from Buena Vista, Lexington, and Rockbridge commenced our 2023 Backyard Compost Challenge – a record. The group includes 22 families who enjoyed the project so much last year they signed up again. Almost everyone else is new to composting. Once again we had a waitlist. This is one excited group – check out some …
backyard composting year three
Boxerwood Launches 3rd Annual Backyard Compost Challenge February 2023 In partnership with all three local jurisdictions, Boxerwood is once again facilitating a conservation challenge in which 80 local households receive free backyard composters in exchange for participating in a 10-week food diversion study. Now in its third year, The Backyard Compost Challenge has already helped 150 local households adopt composting …
Thank you, Devan
Thank you, Devan February 2023 This month we bid farewell to Devan Malore, a Boxerwood friend to the end. More than a friend – an inspiration! If you never had the good fortune to meet Devan, quite likely you still met his outdoor art. And if you met his art (here and there and everywhere), then you had met Devan: …
Coreworks Year One
Happy first birthday, COREworks! February 2023 This month marks one year since the debut of COREworks. After two years of research and planning, Boxerwood launched COREworks and its earth care mission last February. The goal of COREworksis to help people reduce their carbon emissions in ways that also benefit the communities where we live. We’ve had all kinds of successes …
Help has Arrived
wetland restoration grant February 2023 This month, Boxerwood received a $63,000 planning grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF). The NFWF award is for creating an evidence-based plan to restore the spring-fed wetland within Boxerwood’s 15-acre property. This funding will enable Boxerwood to hire an environmental engineering firm to develop a plan to better manage stormwater runoff and …
Mohawk, the Friend who Keeps on Giving
Quietly, over the years, Mohawk has also equipped us with the kind of things we need to get work done: a new pop-up tent for festivals, another box of water-monitoring supplies, t-shirts for our youth summit, fruit trees, composters – and just this fall, a whole passel of shovels and related gear for our tree planting initiatives.
Tree Planting Extravaganza
This past month Boxerwood helped facilitate two big tree-planting projects. As a result, an additional 663 native trees are now tucked in for years of beauty, being, and service.