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Friday, August 1, 2025

Our Annual Birthday Celebration of the Veblens

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Every year we throw a Veblen Birthday Bash in June to honor Oswald and Elizabeth Veblens' role in founding the open space movement in Pr...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

What's Bloomin' in the Barden? -- July 2, 2025

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The Botanical Art Garden at Herrontown Woods, nicknamed the Barden and packed with more than 150 species of native plants, has a steady stre...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Pagoda Dogwood -- A Comeback Story

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It was a great surprise, many years ago, when I first encountered a pagoda dogwood in Herrontown Woods. Though its leaves have the classical...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Herrontown Woods in the News -- Salamanders and Wet Meadows

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There have been some excellent recent writeups in local news media about the Friends of Herrontown Woods' work in the community, in Town...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Princeton Grad Students Help Out at Herrontown Woods

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One of my favorite things to do at Herrontown Woods is to restore habitat with a group of grad students from SPIA. That's the Princeton ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Late Winter Blooms at Veblen House

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Even before spring officially begins its sweep through the landscape, the Veblen House grounds come alive with blooms.   Particularly prolif...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Soft Open for Firmer Trails at Autumn Hill Reservation

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If you haven't been to Autumn Hill Reservation in a while, this would be a good time to check it out. A three year revisioning of the tr...
Friday, February 28, 2025

Lunar New Year Celebration - 2025

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About 150 kids and adults came to the Barden at Herrontown Woods on Feb. 23 to celebrate the Year of the Wood Snake.  A wood snake might be ...