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‘Connecting People to the Land’: New Canaan Land Trust Volunteers Finish Five-Year Stone Wall Restoration
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One of the community’s most esteemed nonprofit organizations has finished a long-term project in northern New Canaan. The New Canaan Land Trust’s Hawkins Meadow, an approximately 5.5-acre grassland, wetlands and mixed hardwoods preserve with a pollinator field mowed twice per year—includes a 611-foot-long stone wall fronting North Wilton Road. Led by Dr. Haik Kavookjian and mason Greg Faillaci, volunteers such as the New Canaan SLOBs have gathered for monthly work sessions over the past five years “to bring this historic stone wall back to life,” according to Robin Bates-Mason, executive director of the Land Trust. “A lot of our properties were farmland, and the stone walls were built, but they come undone after a couple hundred years,” she said. “Over time and with the heaving of the winter, they just start to fall apart.”
The volunteers used stones found on the property and brought in additional stones to finish the job, Bates-Mason said.
