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Hundred Acre Hollows, Inc.

Nature preserve in Suntree / Melbourne, FL

May 18, 2020

May 2020 Newsletter

A lot has been happening while we have been in the “stay at home” due to Covid 19.  We continue to work on our mission to “Protect the Wildlife, Restore the Habitat, and Engage the Public.”

We recently earned the “Platinum” level of transparency on Guidestar that rates non-profits! That is the highest level a nonprofit can have!

Our HAH Inc. Board met via telephone last Friday, May 8. We continue to meet monthly, but these past 3 months it has been on a conference call. We had 6 Board members, but Megan is moving to Gainesville to continue her studies at UF in animal sciences. She is the young woman who placed Gopher Tortoise signs in Wickham park for her Girl Scout Gold Award. She was instrumental a couple of years ago in asking the county and every municipality in Brevard to have a Gopher Tortoise Day proclamation. There were 17 GT Day proclamations that year! She attended EFSC for two years and served on the HAH Board. We appreciate her participation and will miss her.

We have 4 new people joining our Board, so we have 9 members now. They were invited to listen in on our Board meeting last Friday, and they are eager to help us. Our Board members are from Viera, Tralee Bay in Capron Ridge to the north of HAH, Devon’s Glen to the south of HAH, and the Springs of Suntree to the east of HAH. All of the new people, Carine, Anastasia, Steve, and Tanja, and their children have been active in helping on our work days.  Interestingly, our Board members have a diversity of languages: French, German, Chinese, Russian, and Spanish. (Other members speak Air Force and Bird.)

Protect the Wildlife: The wildlife is protected because the gates are locked. In addition to the plants growing naturally in HAH, we planted two native plant gardens that feed the pollinators and tortoises. We have not opened the gates to the public in April or on May 3. We opened on Sunday, May 17, from 6 to 8 p.m. for our “Sunset in the Hollows.”  48 people were there including several new families! Our contractor who lives in Devon’s Glen mowed the trail recently. We will open from 6 to 8 p.m. on June 7 and 21.

Restore the Habitat: We had a contractor, who works for St. John’s Water Management District, in HAH to spray the Cogongrass. We tried to give him water from the reclaimed water faucet, but no water came out. Thankfully, our rain barrels were full, so he could get water for his tank from them. He had sprayed in July 2018, and he was very pleased that the work he did then eradicated most of the Cogongrass. He is coming again in a couple of weeks with more herbicides to spray an area of Cogon grass in the middle of the northwest basin and other invasives like small Brazilian Pepper trees. He will bring another man to help him with that.

Our two native plant gardens are thriving and helping the birds, bees, butterflies, and gopher tortoises! The garden in the south, planted by the Audubon Society in Nov 2018, is getting new mulch. The Rock Springs entrance garden, planted by HAH volunteers in March 2019, will get some new mulch soon. We had a Florida Friendly 2019 matching grant from Keep Brevard Beautiful for that garden.

We have not had any group work days since the shutdown. Individual Board members and Audubon garden workers have come out on their own to water and work in the gardens.

Engage the Public: We have had plans to have a Ranger program for several months, but we cannot meet with a group yet. Rangers will be adults and youth who will help when we are open to the public. We plan to have our first meeting to begin training on Sat June 13 in the morning in HAH.  We had to cancel our April spring educational event that would have started the Ranger program. A presentation of the Gopher Tortoise Burrow survey had also been planned. That event will be rescheduled later.

We completed the Gopher Tortoise Burrow Survey in mid-March. We have an FWC permit to measure the burrows. 521 burrows were identified and 407 burrows are active. There are baby tortoises in several areas, indicating a healthy tortoise population. Our student Board member, Yuliang, who is a sophomore at Edgewood JR/Sr High, has done a wonderful map project with GIS. He has an incredible map of the GPS tagged burrows and their sizes. With his analyses, he said elevation, slope of the berm, and healthy plant life were the most significant factors in burrow location. He had planned to submit his map at the international GIS conference in California at the end of June, but the map portion was cancelled this year. Yuliang’s dad, Lixin, works in the Brevard County GIS department. They both have been a huge help. Here is the link to Yuliang’s project. The variable importance spreadsheet is attached to the email.

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/090f4a87fb6b4e55b67fe35adde52f13

There are two Boy Scouts who have Eagle Scout projects to make wooden benches. There is a Girl Scout who plans to make signs. They hope to complete those this summer.

We keep the public updated via Facebook, Instagram, and our website. We have 789 Fb followers. One of our new Board members will keep Instagram more active. We are working on Mail Chimp to send out regular emails to interested people who have given us their email addresses.

There are many ways you can support us now. HAH now has a Platinum level on Guidestar which rates nonprofits. You can choose HAH for smile.amazon.com, and HAH will get a percentage of your purchase. We have a wish list on Amazon. You can donate on our website thru PayPal or on our HAH Facebook page. We are always excited when someone mails a check to us! Please support HAH in 2020! Also, there is a beautiful bumblebee design on yellow reusable bags at www.wendybarnesdesign.com . Wendy donates 10% of every sale of the bumblebee design to HAH!

Please join HAH, Inc! Annual Membership suggested donation: Student/Teacher $10, Individual $15, Family $25. You can join online or checks can be sent to: Hundred Acre Hollows, Inc.  1170 Ida Way Melbourne, FL 32940. Our website link goes to PayPal which is a secure site.

 Hundred Acre Hollows, Inc is a 501c3 nonprofit formed to be caretakers of 114 acres of Brevard County land in north Suntree.  Please visit our website: www.hundredacrehollows.org and our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HundredAcreHollows/  Our email address is: hundredacrehollows@gmail.com HUNDRED ACRE HOLLOWS, INC IS DULY REGISTERED WITH THE STATE OF FLORIDA AS REQUIRED BY ITS SOLICITATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS ACT. OUR REGISTRATION NUMBER IS CH52596. A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL REGISTRATION AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE DIVISION OF CONSUMER SERVICES BY CALLING TOLL-FREE (800-435-7352) WITHIN THE STATE. REGISTRATION DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT, APPROVAL, OR RECOMMENDATION BY THE STATE.

Article by Susan / News and Events

We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit acting as caretakers to 114 acres of land in Brevard County. Our vision is to use this land to discover, study, and teach about Florida’s plants and animals to help sustain and enrich lives.

HUNDRED ACRE HOLLOWS, INC IS DULY REGISTERED WITH THE STATE OF FLORIDA AS REQUIRED BY ITS SOLICITATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS ACT. OUR REGISTRATION NUMBER IS CH52596. A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL REGISTRATION AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE DIVISION OF CONSUMER SERVICES BY CALLING TOLL-FREE (800-435-7352) WITHIN THE STATE. REGISTRATION DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT, APPROVAL, OR RECOMMENDATION BY THE STATE.

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Thank you to everyone who came out to our work day Thank you to everyone who came out to our work day today! Here are some of our volunteers and one of the piles of invasive brush we cleared. Interesting in helping? Follow us on Facebook or Meetup to find out about upcoming dates. The next one is January 23 from 9-11am.
Please join us for the next "Sunset at the Hollows Please join us for the next "Sunset at the Hollows" on Sunday, Jan 17th, 3-5pm.
Enjoy the beauty of the hollows. Go hiking on the mowed trails or appreciate the  nature from the multiple benches, kindly donated by the  boy scouts.
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It's incredible to witness this magnificent juveni It's incredible to witness this magnificent juvenile #eagle hunting at HAH. ❤🦅
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HAH volunteers helping to keep the preserve beauti HAH volunteers helping to keep the preserve beautiful and healthy
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Hundred Acre Hollows looks a bit different in the Hundred Acre Hollows looks a bit different in the winter, but still just as magnificent. ❤
Join us for "Sunset at the Hollows" every 1st and 3rd Sunday to enjoy the beauty and tranquility of nature. Or, if you would like to volunteer, attend our work days to keep HAH beautiful.
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More #beauty from tonight's "Sunset in the Hollows More #beauty from tonight's "Sunset in the Hollows" ❤
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The #beauty of #HAH #sunsets ❤ Join us next time The #beauty of #HAH #sunsets ❤
Join us next time to experience for yourself
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Dine at TEXAS Roadhouse in Viera this Thursday, No Dine at TEXAS Roadhouse in Viera this Thursday, November 5th, 5-8pm and support the Hundred Acre Hollows at the same time! 😀 #itsawinwin
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What will you do with your extra hour on Sunday? Y What will you do with your extra hour on Sunday? You are invited to Sunset in the Hollows Nov 1 from 4 to 6 pm. It's a beautiful time of year for a nature walk. The Salt Myrtle trees are beginning to bloom. You can send a photo to your northern friends and show them snowy white Florida trees!
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We were delighted to give a tour of HAH to Brevard We were delighted to give a tour of HAH to Brevard County Commissioner Curt Smith, District 4, and his staff. The native plant gardens were full of flowers, bees and butterflies. Even 2 large old gopher tortoises came out to say "hello". It was a beautiful morning. 
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Repost from @wendybarnesdesign - Whatever you are Repost from @wendybarnesdesign - Whatever you are planning for Halloween 2020, you can use this handmade treat bag featuring either spiders or bats that gives back to wildlife conservation partner @hundredacrehollows 10% of your purchase! Spiders & bats need people fighting for their local habitats too ;)
🕷Our plan is to surprise our daughter Halloween morning with one of these treat bags stuffed with goodies - similar to an Easter basket. Then, hopefully by evening she will be over the candy part🤞and be excited to dress up and walk around our neighborhood to ‘judge’ decorated houses. We are not comfortable going door to door and will bring a few surprises to give her along the way. That’s the plan now but it is 2020 so you know how plans are going this year...!! #halloween2020🎃 $12 while supplies last: www.wendybarnesdesign.com
Check out this #incredible #doublerainbow captured Check out this #incredible #doublerainbow captured tonight at "Sunset at the Hollows"! 
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We love seeing all the #wildlife enjoying themselv We love seeing all the #wildlife enjoying themselves at #HAH !!! ❤
In these photos, the #bumblebees are enjoying the blooming Goldenrod. The #butterflies are enjoying the Calamint. 
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Restoring the Habitat involves taking out invasive Restoring the Habitat involves taking out invasive plants and planting native plants! Our two native plant gardens look pretty cool from the air. We received a Keep Brevard Beautiful grant in 2019 for the garden by the gate. That area was totally overtaken by invasive Brazilian Pepper trees. The garden was planted in March 2019. The Space Coast Audubon Society planted the Audubon in Action garden in the south of HAH in Nov 2018. Thanks, Yuliang, for the beautiful drone photos.
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How amazing is that Hundred Acre Holows is a home How amazing is that Hundred Acre Holows is a home to so many animals, including this magnificent bobcat! 
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Yesterday we welcomed Suntree FAITH co-op, a homes Yesterday we welcomed Suntree FAITH co-op, a homeschool group. There were pre-school and elementary school children with their moms (8 moms and 24 children!). They enjoyed the Audubon gardens where we told them about native plants. They saw bumblebees, butterflies, and dragonflies. They learned about gopher tortoises and some of their commensals. It was a fun morning!
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Amazing #sunset at the Hollows tonight! Thanks to Amazing #sunset at the Hollows tonight! Thanks to all who joined us!
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Join us for the "Sunset in the Hollows" tomorrow 8 Join us for the "Sunset in the Hollows" tomorrow 8/16, 6-8pm. Come and discover the beauty and tranquility of HAH!
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If you need to take a break during your walk at HA If you need to take a break during your walk at HAH, or simply want to pause to enjoy the beauty, there are several benches available along the way! Thank you to boy scouts for generously providing those! ❤
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Beauty at HAH 🌺🌱 . . . #hundredacrehollows # Beauty at HAH 🌺🌱
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We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit acting as caretakers to 114 acres of land in Brevard County. Our vision is to use this land to discover, study, and teach about Florida’s plants and animals to help sustain and enrich lives. HUNDRED ACRE HOLLOWS, INC IS DULY REGISTERED WITH THE STATE OF FLORIDA AS REQUIRED BY ITS SOLICITATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS ACT. OUR REGISTRATION NUMBER IS CH52596. A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL REGISTRATION AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE DIVISION OF CONSUMER SERVICES BY CALLING TOLL-FREE (800-435-7352) WITHIN THE STATE. REGISTRATION DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT, APPROVAL, OR RECOMMENDATION BY THE STATE.