Celebrate the beauty of the Buzzards Bay watershed on May 28 with an afternoon of golf at the spectacular championship 18-hole course at the Bay Club at Mattapoisett. Your day will include 18 holes of golf, greens fees, cart rental, lunch, participation favor, and a cocktail and hors d’oeuvre reception with auction and awards.

Registration is Open

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Best Ball of Foursome Format

• Foursome $1,000
• Individual Golfers $250
• Cocktail Party & Auction Tickets for Non-Golfers $30

Registration closes May 22^nd

The Mattapoisett Land Trust acquired the Brownell Preserve in 2011 with the hope that it would one day be able to restore the overgrown blueberry orchard. Private contributions, including a Community Grant from the Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation, provided the funds to enable the MLT to hire professionals who removed the forest cover this winter. Now the MLT needs volunteers to complete the clean-up by collecting the debris that litters the orchard’s rows.

The MLT is inviting everyone interested in helping restore the blueberry orchard to join us at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 27, for a couple of hours of community service. Volunteers should meet in the parking lot of the Friends Meeting House on Route 6 before proceeding onto the Brownell Preserve. Tools will be provided but gloves and boots are highly recommended. For more information call 774-377-9191 or email info@mattlandtrust.org.  Share a couple hours in service to celebrate Earth Day

Tomorrow, Saturday April 6 at 9!
Help certify a Vernal Pool in the MLT’s Woodcock Preserve. See signs of life critical to the task! Eggs, insects and more. If you’ve heard the mating “quacks” of the Wood Frog, then you’ve probably been near one of these critical bodies of water.
If you don’t know where the Preserve is, meet us, 8:45,  at Dunseith Gardens (Salty’s hangout) at North Street and Route 6 to join the caravan.
The map is below in previous post.
Wear muck proof boots!
See you there!

Wed, April 3, 7 pm Mattapoisett Library

Wetland Scientist Elizabeth Leidhold will give a slide presentation
on vernal pools at the Mattapoisett Library in preparation for
certification field trip on April 6

Sat. April 6, 9 am. Woodcock Preserve, Long Plain rd.

Join wetland scientist Elizabeth Leidhold for a fascinating hands on
experience in the field. Learn about the springtime breeding place
of wood frogs, salamanders and more!

In case you had not heard, seen it on our website, checked our Facebook page or received an actual invitation, the MLT held a special event to honor the lifeblood of our entirely volunteer organization. We depend on volunteers for everything from maintaining the properties you visit to making decisions on acquisition of new properties.
Originally the event was scheduled for Saturday, February 9 in Reynard Hall at the Mattapoisett Congregational Church. However the arrival of the Great Blizzard of 2013 forced a change to March 9.

Fantastic music was provided by the Mike Bliss Quartet from Old Rochester Regional High School.
A light meal was catered by “On the Go” of Mattapoisett, followed by fabulous blueberry desserts prepared by your Board of Directors.
A little ceremony thanking our volunteers was held and specially designed tee shirts were presented to the volunteers in attendance. If you see somebody wearing one, please give them a hearty thank you for keeping open space available in Mattapoisett! Also, ask them how you can get involved and maybe get this spiffy apparel for yourself.