A big thank-you to Mendon Highway Superintendent Pete Doyle and the Mendon Highway Department for partnering with us to resurface the parking lots at our Sibleyville and Rochester Junction properties. Using recycled road tailings, the team created smoother, more durable surfaces for visitors. You may have noticed the piles of material Read more
The Mendon Foundation is honored to announce that we have officially named our Taylor Road Property as the Small’s Nature Preserve. This new name recognizes Edie and Gordon Small, whose generous donation of 11.8 acres in 2003 ensured this beautiful landscape would remain protected for generations to come. Their vision Read more
This month the Mendon Foundation voted unanimously to officially name one of its land trust properties. The Mendon Foundation had received 26-acres of beautiful wooded land from Dr. Evelyn Lewis back in December 2001. This property remained unnamed over the last 24-years and was often referred to as the Mendon Read more
A team of Mendon Foundation volunteers worked diligently this week to install a French drain on the entrance trail to our Taylor Road property. This Spring was exceptionally wet and as a result a short section of the trail had standing water and mud until the month of June. This Read more
A team of Mendon Foundation volunteers have been very busy over the last two weeks completing trail maintenance and installing three (3) water mitigation culverts on our Pittsford-Mendon Center Road property. One of these culverts replaced the easement bridge that was washed out in the severe June storm. The trails Read more
Twelve volunteers spent this morning creating a beautiful new nature trail at the Mendon Foundation’s Eckler Road property. Many hands made light work, and we accomplished our objectives. The new hiking trail connects the existing Mendon Foundation trail system accessed from Eckler Road to the new Mendon Green trail system. Read more
This Fall the Mendon Foundation designed and purchased new signage to be used consistently around the perimeter of all of its Land Trust Properties. Using GPS survey software, teams of volunteers spent numerous days on all of the Mendon Foundation properties to install the signs. These new signs reflect standardized Read more
The Mendon Foundation’s team of volunteers spent numerous workdays over the last month making improvements to its Taylor Road Land Trust Property. Scouts from Honeoye Falls’ Scouts BSA Troop 410 also volunteered for a workday on the property as a community service project. The significant volunteer efforts primarily focused on leveling Read more
The Mendon Foundation has been busy this Summer with a couple of improvement projects on its 46-acre Sibleyville Nature Reserve. Members of our community, as well as visitors from outside our community, utilize this beautiful green space daily nearly year-round. For this reason, we purchased thirty-three (33) tons of crushed Read more