Farm Connection is a monthly article connecting city folk to life on the Stratford Ecological Center farm. It is published on the third Saturday of the month in our local Delaware Gazette. It is submitted by Pauline Scott, a farm and nature guide at Stratford and a member of the SEC Board of Trustees.
Life Settles Down for Winter At Stratford Ecological Center
The first frost, with temperatures in the low 20’s, arrived at Stratford Ecological Center on Liberty Road November 3 and killed the flowering buckwheat in field #3, thus ending […]
Children Feel At Home At Stratford Ecological Center
On the Fall Equinox three inches of rain fell at Stratford Ecological Center on Liberty Road. The next day, which coincided with the famous Little […]Life Moves Into High Gear At Stratford Ecological Center
Life at Stratford Ecological Center on Liberty Road moved into high gear the week after Labor Day. Fifth graders arrived to take part in our […]
Hay Baler Hickups at Stratford Ecological Center
After consistently dry days it was a relief to have a heavy but short rainfall on June 29 at Stratford Ecological Center on Liberty Road. […]In-Pig Sow “Frances” Makes Debut at Stratford Ecological Center
Last month I shared that the vista at Stratford Ecological Center on Liberty Road was green, green, green; this month I can add that the […]
Green Vistas Abound at Stratford Ecological Center
It is a vista of green, green, green at Stratford Ecological Center on Liberty Road. The heavily pruned apple trees are in full leaf. The […]In Memory of Shepherdess Marge Finnegan
This article was first published in the Delaware Gazette. March did not go out like a lion at Stratford Ecological Center on Liberty Road with […]
Sap, Lambs, Kids, and a Prairie Burn at Stratford
This article was first published in the Delaware Gazette. After a snowy February, this month has been the driest March in memory for Stratford Ecological […]
New Storybook Trail to Sugar Shack
This article was first published in the Delaware Gazette. This month last year at Stratford Ecological Center on Liberty Road the fields were water-logged, the […]Farmhands Turn Their Hands to Inside Work
FARMHANDS TURN THEIR HANDS TO INSIDE WORK The farmhands at Stratford Ecological Center on Liberty Road did not take their usual two-week holiday over Christmas […]
A Wonderland In Our State Nature Preserve
A WONDERLAND IN OUR STATE NATURE PRESERVE Published in The Delaware Gazette: December 2020 The long lane through the woods at Stratford Ecological Center on […]
Seasonal Work In Hand At Stratford Ecological Center
Published in The Delaware Gazette: November 2020 We are still unable to open our gates as widely as we would like at Stratford Ecological Center […]
