04/24/2026
🌳🍅 Conservation Efforts🍅🌳
Branch Hill Farm’s Managing Trustee, Cynthia Wyatt was inspired by the Bear Paw Regional Greenways’ mission which is “to permanently conserve a network of lands that protects our region’s water, wildlife habitat, forests and farmland.” Having this mission in mind, she made it her goal to take Branch Hill Farm’s 3,500-acre conservation lands and connect it to the Greenway initiative. In 2000, she collaborated with other conservation minded community members to make her goals happen and she did just that when they created the Moose Mountains Regional Greenways. Since then, MMRG has worked with landowners to voluntarily conserve over 8,500 acres in the Moose Mountains Region.
BHF’s work doesn’t end there though. Although they as well as their two licensed foresters, Dan Stepanauskas and Charlie Moreno, still work hard to protect and care for their forestlands, their conservation efforts also show through their agricultural work.
From educational gardens that have become a model space for how learning and living occurs in a sustainable world to their hay fields where they practice delayed mowing for migratory birds to their certified “Naturally Grown” cider orchards, Branch Hill Farm has done nothing short of keeping their mission at heart.
Conservation. Education. Stewardship.
