At the end of 2011, John and Joann Figueras of East Brewster donated a 2-acre woodlot to the Brewster Conservation Trust.  This parcel, thickly wooded with pitch pines, oaks and huckleberry, knits together three adjoining parcels of protected open space owned by the Town of Brewster.  It also is traversed by an old cartpath used by […]

Nature almost always finds it way back.  What man has rent asunder, nature can re-stitch, given time.  And nature has the time.  So it is with the evolution of the Cape’s swamps to cranberry bogs and back to swamps, an evolution and de-evolution, if you will.  Many of the Cape’s cranberry bogs were white cedar […]

Give the gift of land and life!  You can help the Brewster Conservation Trust preserve 2.6 acres at Dollar Pond. Make a tax-deductible contribution in honor of your family or friends. The Swift family owned this property for the past 50 years; we are buying it from Brewster’s Jackson Crocker, part of that family.  The […]