In February, a local realtor hammered a “For Sale” sign on Main Street just west of Drummer Boy Park.   It was a new listing for a 1- acre, ready-to go-building lot right next to BCT’s Windmill Meadows on Route 6A.  Asking price – $175,000.  Immediately, the BCT saw the opportunity to save the whole sweep […]

Curious passersby wonder what the old stone foundation was at the start of the new Eddy Bay Trail on Lower Road.  We did too, after we uncovered it this winter as part of the trail-clearing.  Some on-line sleuthing from our advisor Mark Robinson of The Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts determined it was the […]

You know your Brewster Conservation Trust preserves open space.  What you might not know is that occasionally we get a chance to make open space.  Over our first 30 years, we have taken down three dwellings (and several sheds and other outbuildings) and restored the natural setting of the properties.  Call it a “re-set.” The Compact […]