This year Independence Day has new meaning as many people begin to emerge from their stay-at-home cocoon. COVID-19 has changed our reality and as we...
Archive for category: Executive Director’s Blog
Earth Day: 50-year Anniversary
The mission of Earth Day is simple –To build the world’s largest environmental movement to drive transformative change for people and planet. The execution is...
Bringing New Meaning to “The Birds and the Bees”
Like many expressions that evolve over time, “the birds and the bees” has new significance. It’s still a conversation about reproduction, but the associated awkward...
Connect In 2020!
With another year behind us, it’s time to set our intentions for 2020. Skip the notion of a pass/fail resolution and set a mindful intention...
FoHVOS Highlights Hopewell Valley Schools Environmental Student Programs
Over time we have shared the importance of connecting students with nature and discussed environmental initiatives throughout the Valley. Now it’s time to hear from...
Force of Nature Revisited – Anne Nixon-Ellery
In January 2018 issue of Hopewell Valley Neighbors magazine, Anne Nixon-Ellery was named the first ever FoHVOS Force of Nature for her conservation contributions in...
The Importance of Native Plants
In the late 1700s, English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge inked a phrase still known today as “Water, Water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink.”...
Community Conservation
While Hopewell Valley has long been ecologically motivated, the wider stage has oft been fraught with a frustrating indifference. Lately, attention grabbing world-wide headlines about...
Springtime in Hopewell
by Sarah Brangwynne At first the dark purple spikes looked a little ominous poking out of the ground. Soon, they were coming up bulbous and...
FoHVOS Community Conservation: Community Collaboration Helping Kestrels
The population of North America’s smallest falcons, the American kestrel, is declining in the northeast, and were added to the New Jersey list of threatened...