The American Chestnut Land Trust (ACLT) is pleased to announce that it is the recipient of a $20,000 grant from the Maryland Heritage Area Authority (MHAA) for research to be conducted as the initial phase of the “Parkers Creek Heritage Trail”. According to the grant application: “For more than 10,000 years, people have hunted, fished, […]
ACLT to be Featured on MPT’s “Outdoors Maryland”
On July 26th and 27th, a film crew from the MPT show “Outdoors Maryland” visited to take footage for an upcoming segment about ACLT and the partnerships that protected the Parkers Creek Watershed. The crew spent time on Double Oak Farm, at the Raft, at a Water Quality Monitoring site, walking the beach at Warriors […]
ACLT Opens a New Hiking Trail
Running from the end of the Parkers Creek Road trail on the North Side, across the creek, then winding a challenging 2 miles to Cemetery Lane on the South Side, ACLT’s new “North-South Trail” is a remarkable and fun addition to our trail system! See our complete trails map. We’ve worked hard and are so […]
Double Oak Farm in the News
Autumn Phillips-Lewis, ACLT’s Land Manager, published an article about Double Oak Farm in the Maryland Environmental Trust (MET) newsletter. Read this article about ACLT’s ‘Agriculture to Support the Community’ program online on page three of the Spring/Summer 2017 issue in MET’s newsletter archive. To learn more about the farm, see the post “ACLT Plans to […]
ACLT Announces Plans to Farm for Food Banks
The Board and staff of the American Chestnut Land Trust is very pleased to announce that beginning this season (2016) its Double Oak Farm will be donating the vast majority of its produce to local food pantries. “This new effort is a powerful opportunity for all those involved to touch the lives of their neighbors […]
