Tool Library at Burley Farm
UNH Extension reports:
For conservation groups across the Granite State, almost any time can be tool time thanks to the new Seacoast Stewardship Tool Library. A partnership between The Stewardship Network: New England (TSNNE)/UNH Cooperative Extension and the Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire (SELT), the library lends everything from pry bars and pruning saws to work gloves and garden rakes. An online lending system makes it easy for volunteer groups, conservation commissions, and other organizations to check out tools for trail maintenance, habitat improvements, and other projects.
“The Stewardship Network: New England found that one of the barriers for groups holding volunteer workdays and doing stewardship work was access to tools,” said Emma Tutein, an Extension field specialist in natural resources and land conservation. “Many of the tools we use for trail work and invasive plants are expensive and big and single-purpose, and most people don’t have them at home.”
The tool library is located in a barn at the Southeast Land Trust’s Burley Farms property in Epping. Groups can reserve and check-out tools with an online reservation system. The library officially opened on Friday, Nov. 3 with a stewardship-themed ribbon cutting, with loppers and flagging tape standing in for the usual items.