Easter Family Mystery School

By |2026-03-27T21:42:57-04:00March 27th, 2026|Events & Celebrations|

Saturday, April 11th at 1 p.m. Welcome to a new year of Family Mystery School! Our opening session will be for those early birds ready to get a jump start and experience something special for Easter and springtime!  We will read a story called The Sleeping Tree Mystery by Jean Lewis - a mystery story about some animal’s missing items being used by a mother bird for her nest. We will talk about the concept of mysteries ...

Natural Bird Feeder

By |2026-03-18T19:55:19-04:00January 31st, 2026|Birds, Fauna, Flora|

https://youtube.com/shorts/JZtsGGHV-hA?feature=share A video of birds feeding on dried crabapples at Crossing Hedgerows Farm and Sanctuary in late January. Crabapples Wishing each of you peace and blessings, Jean

Buttonbush

By |2026-03-18T19:20:34-04:00January 31st, 2026|Birds, Flora|

By Brennah Cavanaugh, Board Member of Crossing Hedgerows Sanctuary   Buttonbush is a bush with very unique looking flower clusters that are almost perfectly spherical. Its flowers are adored by pollinators of all sorts, but due to the long tube-like shape of the individual flowers in the cluster they are especially attractive to pollinators with longer tongues, like butterflies, bumble bees, and hummingbirds. (The unusual shape of the flowers make them attractive to humans, too!) It is ...

Walking With The Forest Spirits

By |2026-03-18T19:14:09-04:00January 31st, 2026|Musings|

By Sarenth Óðinsson, Board Member of Crossing Hedgerows The world is alive. This is especially easy to know at Crossing Hedgerows. You can feel life pulsing beneath your feet, even in the midst of Winter. There is life. Perennial food crops and flowers around the farm are coming back to life, with shoots beginning to pop up, and fruit blossoms preparing to open. The greenhouse is thriving with green interspersed with the decay of the last hops ...

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