York County Coast Star, August 6, 2020 By Shawn Sullivan https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20200806/beaver-deceiver-device-aims-to-mitigate-rail-trailrsquos-dam-problem   SPRINGVALE, Maine – For years, beaver dams have caused flooding after high watershed events along the Rail Trail abutting the wetlands of Deering Pond, but the installation of a new device on site is expected to help resolve the issue for decades to

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The Sanford-Springvale Mousam Way Land Trust is happy to announce that it has been awarded a “Walmart Community Grants Team” grant, from the company’s Sanford Store, to support the Trust’s Sanford Community Garden. This $750.00 award was used to buy, build, and install a Produce Wash Station to enable gardeners to clean both their produce,

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On a warm and foggy late October morning, “Lowes Heros” volunteer employees from Sanford Lowes gathered to help a local community’s non-profit organization, as they do every year. This year’s help was the building of a tool shed for Sanford Community Garden. The “Heros” brought the necessary materials with them, and along with help from

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On a recent Saturday morning, folks from the Sanford/Springvale Rotary Club and the Sanford/Springvale Mousam Way Land Trust teamed up to install improvements on a trail that follows the western shore of Deering Pond, which is in the Trust’s Hall Reserve in Springvale. Three bridges and two boardwalks will help keep walkers’ feet dry during

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From: UMaine Cooperative Extension’s “Maine Home Garden News”, October, 2019 https://extension.umaine.edu/gardening/2019/10/01/maine-home-garden-news-october-2019/ After acquiring what is now known as The McKeon Environmental Reserve, the Directors of the Mousam Way Land Trust endorsed the concept to plan and build a community ecology center. The David and Linda Pence Community Ecology Center, named after the generous folks who

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Kennebunk Savings Bank Helps Local Land Trust Project July 11, 2019 Sanford/Springvale Mousam Way Land Trust is thrilled to announce the generous $10,000 donation from Kennebunk Savings Bank towards the Trust’s ongoing community-orientated effort: Sanford Community Garden at the Pence Ecology Center in The McKeon Environmental Reserve in Springvale. The Center and Garden, separate projects

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The Mousam Way Land Trust is pleased to be partnering with the local horticultural community’s farms during Springvale’s 5th Annual Farm Walk this summer, July 28. During your visit, via shuttle if you wish, you’ll be offered:  Tours of Sanford’s brand new Community Garden project;  The University of Maine Extension Service’s Kids Can Grow program

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(As reported in Journal Tribune, June 27, 2019) SPRINGVALE — The York County Chapter of the University of Maine Extension Service Master Gardener Volunteers, and the Maine Master Gardener Development Fund has announced the awarding of a $500 grant to the Sanford Community Gardens. The Maine Master Gardener Development Fund supports the establishment or expansion

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(As posted on Journal Tribune Newspaper website). As hundreds of volunteers from local businesses fanned across York County for the United Way’s 2019 Day of Caring event, these Pratt & Whitney employees  worked alongside Mousam Way Land Trust members at the trust’s Pence Community Ecology Center at the McKeon Reserve to clear areas for a

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A new community garden is coming to Sanford  in the spring of  2019 for individuals and families who lack access to suitable garden land.  It will  be located on the McKeon Reserve at the Pence Community Ecology Center.  The  Mousam Way Land Trust is in the early stages of raising funds for the garden. The

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