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Conservation Updates

Hopping/Pike Farm Stand (Sagaponack): Great News!! The Peconic Land Trust has purchased the Hopping farmland, home to the Pike Farmstand. Read more . . .  

McQuade Preserve, Riverhead: The Trust issued a press release on December 17, 2009 on the donation of the McQuade Preserve in Riverhead. The 64.4 acre soundfront preserve was another step in a long-term conservation plan by Ann McQuade to realize the perpetual protection and stewardship of this land. In 2005, she sold the development rights to the land to Suffolk County. This was the first purchase of development rights on open space by the County and an unusual event attesting to the significance of the property. Read more . . . 

Anderegg Preserve, Riverhead: The Trust issued a press release on September 17, 2009 on the conservation of the Anderegg Preserve in Riverhead. A 19-acre wooded parcel along Long Island Sound, is dedicated to the memory of J. Philip Anderegg and Etiennette Trouve Anderegg, was made possible through a combination of a generous donation to the Trust for the acquisition of the property by the estate of Mr. Anderegg, overseen by his friend and estate executor Arthur M. Tasker, and a bargain sale of 19 acres of woodland by Randy and Terry Pratt to the Trust. Read more . . . 

Special Events

The following special events have been scheduled for 2010! We hope to see you. For more information, see our Upcoming Events Calendar.

June 5: Peconinic
August 1: The 7th Annual Through Farms and Fields Country Supper 
Labor Day Weekend: The Tomato Taste-Off at Quail Hill Farm
September 24-25: HARVEST: Wine Auction and Celebration of Long Island's East End to benefit Peconic Land Trust and East End Hospice 
 
Plein Air Peconic Exhibitions: featuring the beautiful landscape works of the 11 artists of "Plein Air Peconic" will be ongoing throughout the summer at the Southampton Historical Museum on Meetinghouse Lane in Southampton, through Labor Day weekend.  Additional works are also on display at the Main Street, East Hampton store of Tiffany & Co. through Labor Day weekend.

Upcoming Connections Events:

For an online listing of Connections events . . . or

The September-December 2010 Connections is now available for download (pdf) 
The Peconic Land Trust's calendar of recreational & educational events.

Peconic Land Trust Newsletter:

Latest Issues:PDF 2009: Winter    The next issue will be mailed late September 2010

PDF 2007: Year in Review

PDF 2007/2008 Fall/Winter

Archived Newsletters