A.D. Makepeace: Inspired by Nature

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The Makepeace Neighborhood Fund Board of Trustees announced $119,000 in grant awards on May 9, plus a special grant of $20,000 to the Wareham Public Schools, and an award of technical assistance to the fledgling Carver Boys and Girls Club. Read our press release here.

This will be the first off-Cape full-service branch for the 158-year-old institution with more than $2 billion in assets. Read their press release here.

The American Bus Association (ABA) announced recently that the Cranberry Harvest Celebration, to be held this year on October 6 and 7, has been designated as one of the Top 100 Events in North America for 2013 by an experienced expert tourism industry selection committee. Read our press release here.

Governor Deval Patrick recently visited Makepeace propert at Halfway Pond in Plymouth to announce a major land protection achievement. With the purchase of the Halfway Pond property from the A.D. Makepeace Company for conservation purposes, the Commonwealth achieved its goal of protecting 100,000 acres in five years. Read the governor's press release here.

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James “Jeff” Crowley is president of Wachusett Mountain Ski Area in Westminster, MA. Read our press release here.

The Fund awards grants to non-profit and municipal organizations for education, agriculture, community housing, historic preservation, health care, and environmental/open space projects. Read our press release here.

Existing and new customers to benefit from Makepeace sand supply, Read expertise.

The Massachusetts Association of School Committees gave the company its "Outstanding School Partnership Award," after nominations made by Carver School Superintendent Elizabeth Sorrell and Wareham School Superintendent Barry Rabinovitch. Read the article here.

Michael P. Hogan, a member of the board of directors of Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM) and president and CEO of A.D. Makepeace Company, an agricultural and real estate development company headquartered in Wareham, was recently appointed by Governor Patrick to serve as AIM's representative on his Economic Development Council. Read the press release here.

The Makepeace Neighborhood Fund recently announced $150,000 in grant awards to 29 local programs and projects. The Fund is a charitable foundation funded by the A.D. Makepeace Company. Read the press release here.

Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles announced the purchase of 245 acres of land on Red Brook in Wareham and Plymouth that will protect one of the most diverse fish and wildlife habitats in the Commonwealth. The Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game acquired the land, commonly known as Century Bog, from the A.D. Makepeace Company for $3 million.

Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles and Department of Fish and Game Commissioner Mary Griffin joined state legislators, land conservation advocates and representatives of the A.D. Makepeace Company to celebrate the preservation of thousands of acres of critical habitat and open space in southeastern Massachusetts that clears the way for an innovative eco-friendly smart growth development project.

An initial agreement to preserve thousands of acres of critical habitat and open space ?and clear the way for an innovative eco-friendly smart growth development project in southeastern Massachusetts has been reached between the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game and A.D. Makepeace Company, the world's largest cranberry grower and the largest private landowner in eastern Massachusetts, Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles announced today.

In 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower first ran for president, cranberry grower A.D. Makepeace Company had the 10,000 acres of woodlands surrounding its cranberry bogs first certified as a Tree Farm.  Today, more than 50 years and nine presidents later, Makepeace is still continuing the tradition of sustainable forest management on 4,000 acres of pine woodlands in Plymouth County.

June 2, 2013

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Makepeace Farms

146 Tihonet Road, Wareham
Open Tuesday-Sunday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Makepeace Farms Greenhouse and Nursery

22 Cranberry Highway, West Wareham
Open Daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

June 29, 2013

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