Posted by Joanna on Apr 30th, 2009
Last night I stumbled upon the Hartland Garden website. In my eyes this really celebrates the Upper Valley. It’s particularly great that the town of Hartland has supported the effort and the group has received grants to help them get started. Of course, I may be influenced by the Hanover Reservoir Road Gardens as we gear up for our “green up” efforts on Saturday. I think we’ll be seeing more requests for this kind of community endeavor…so what are Upper Valley towns doing with their prime agricultural lands?
Posted by Joanna on Apr 8th, 2009
Our Upper Valley planners quarterly gathering was hosted by Norwich yesterday. Great chili made by Phil and amazing lemon tart provided by Woodstock’s Michael Brands - it was all delicious.
We shared war stories. Talked about development activity (or lack thereof); and the status of land use projects (Norwich adopted new zoning in Dec. & continues to work on MP update, Woodstock’s also working on new zoning (1500′ ridgeline protection) including significant protections for vernal pools and vernal pool clusters and new stormwater regs, UVLSRPC is out straight writing grants & gearing up for the Intermodal Transit Site Feasibility study & GIS activity, Enfield & Dartmouth are doing stuff, etc…) Continue Reading »