Meet Heather Knoll
Sustainable Woodstock’s New Program Coordinator Dear Woodstock Community: We are thrilled to introduce the latest addition to our dedicated team. Heather Knoll comes to us with a background in grassroots …
Electric Lawn Care Finds Success in Woodstock
By Jenevra Wetmore Electric lawncare equipment looks and functions much like gas-powered counterparts. Photo courtesy of Rooted Gardens. With summer comes the near constant drone of lawn mowers, weed whackers, …
Community Gardens are for Everyone!
By Amy Wheeler, Community Garden Coordinator The first time I came across a community garden was many years ago in a different town and state, but I still remember being …
Try Out an E-Bike for Free
By Jenevra Wetmore Heather Wolfe and daughter, Esther, enjoying their e-bike trial during Sustainable Woodstock’s first e-bike event in October 2021. Photo by Jenevra Wetmore. This is the third year …
Clean Up at Riverside Mobile Home Park
By Jenevra Wetmore Volunteers remove skirting and flood-damaged insulation from homes at the Riverside community. Photos: Jenevra Wetmore. Rebecca Mitchell (l), Martha Giller (center), Wendy Miller (right) It has been …
Turn Your Lawn into a Pollinator Garden for a Greener, Healthier Environment
by Jeannie Lindheim and Steven Shama How would you feel if you couldn’t eat your favorite fruits and vegetables or see beautiful flowers? Would you like to see how you …
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Join Sustainable Woodstock at “Gardening for the Earth” Workshop Series
By Jenevra Wetmore Planting and encouraging milkweed in your yard and garden provides monarch butterflies with the plant required for laying eggs and feeding larvae. In the past two decades …
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Update on Vermont’s Legislation on Climate & the Environment
By Skye Cully In the last few years the issue of climate change has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. Unfortunately, we’ve seen inaction from legislators …
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Seeking Health-Safe Sunscreen
By Ella Stainton Throughout this past semester at Woodstock Union High School I have been pursuing an independent study examining sunscreen’s true effects on both people and the environment, particularly …
Use storytelling to understand how the natural world has changed
By Jenevra Wetmore My grandmother was born in 1916 and grew up in a Vermont without possums. The Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana), so peculiar in appearance with its naked tale …
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