Greening Greenfield is working with the City of Greenfield, Youth Climate Action Franklin County, and community volunteers on building native habitat at Millers Meadow where the former Wedgewood Gardens Trailer Park was flooded out.
Volunteers planting at Millers Meadow, May 2025 Photo credit: Athena Lee Bradley
2026 Phase II
With additional funding and continuing support from Greening Greenfield, we invite the community to continue to work with us, the City of Greenfield, and Youth Climate Action Franklin County (YCAFC). Click here for an overview of our plan to plant additional groves of trees and shrubs in the floodplain, establish a picnic area, create paths through the pollinator meadow with benches and bird houses, and improve the view of the river. For a history of Millers Meadow and project history, see Building Resilience Through Habitat Restoration.
See our Events Page for volunteer opportunities. Help plant 200 more trees in spring, 2026.
Many thanks for additional funding:
Franklin County Conservation District
Guiding Star Grange #1
2025 Phase I
From May to December, 2025, the Millers Meadow Project Team joined with members of Youth Climate Action of Franklin County (YCAFC) and 140 additional community volunteers to plant three quarters of an acre with trees and shrubs, both on the hillside next to Colrain Street, and in the floodplain where the access road enters the property. This work was made possible by support from a Municipal Vulnerability Project (MVP) grant, which also enabled us to prepare the soil where we will plant a 1.5-acre pollinator meadow. All of this will transform the property by building native habitat, sequestering carbon, and reducing erosion and flooding in this floodplain property.
On November 8, 2025, volunteers planted the 650th tree in the Millers Meadow project!
2023-2024 Planning
Greening Greenfield supplied Peter Wackernagel with a stipend to do initial design work to apply for a municipal vulnerability project (MVP) grant. For more about the MVP grant and this project see City of Greenfield Planning and Development Department.
While preparing to apply for the MVP grant, several of us met with Nicholas Miller of Field Geology Services, who said, “Millers Meadow has great potential! We can reduce flooding hazards and build climate resilience while improving recreation, river access, native habitat for pollinators, and water quality for aquatic species.” To explore these ideas, Nic offered to take us on two field trips.
GO HERE to learn about those field trips and the visions they inspired.
History
Explore the history of Millers Meadow from geologic times to the present and a vision of this project in a story map by Peter Wackernagel, founder of Youth Climate Action Franklin County. Building Resilience Through Habitat Restoration