A.D. Makepeace: Inspired by Nature

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The A.D. Makepeace Company will implement repairs to the Glen Charlie Pond Dam during the months of August and September, 2010. For a status update on the project, click here.

The A.D. Makepeace Company hosts a quarterly meeting to provide the public with updated information about our Tihonet development plans. Click here (3.58MB PDF) for a link to the most recent presentation, and if you have any questions.

The A.D. Makepeace Company welcomes Tim Crawford as its new Senior Vice President of Agricultural Business. Read more…

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The Makepeace Neighborhood Fund has awarded $125,000 in grants to local organizations, and announced the expansion of the program to include agricultural projects in future years.

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.known as Century Bog, from 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.

September 25, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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October 9 and 10, 2010

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October 2, 20, 23, and 30

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October 22, 23, 24

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November 2