A.D. Makepeace: Inspired by Nature

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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.

Thursday, June 21, in Carver.

Details to come.

October 6 and 7, 2012

For more information go to www.cranberryharvest.org