The Guyette Farm, donated by Evelyn Guyette to the Franklin Land trust in 2008, encompasses 107 acres of northern hardwood, softwood, and open field.  With its diverse habitat and rich, farming heritage, the upcoming service project’s major goal is to make the land available for educational and recreational use through the construction of a public hiking trail.  In addition to the trail, members of the SCA will be working on a bridge to traverse the streams that flow across the farm’s property. 

Volunteers from the surrounding communities will provide an integral role to the success of the project, both in the immediate construction phase and in the long term conservational and educational aspects foreseen at the farm.  

The project at the Guyette Farm is 1 of 36 statewide high priority conservation service projects in which the SCA Mass Parks AmeriCorps volunteers will participate this summer.  The Mass Parks AmeriCorps program, which is both the first residential and the first environmental AmeriCorps program in Massachusetts, is a partnership of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), SCA, the Massachusetts Audubon Society, the Massachusetts Service Alliance and the Corporation for National and Community Service.