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About Vermont Botany Consulting
Our Mission
Vermont Botany Consulting is designed to provide landowners, land managers, and growers with science-based information that builds awareness and supports sustainable land management decisions to maintain Vermont's natural and working landscape for future generations.
"A steward of the land invests in understanding the natural world, thinks holistically, seeks knowledge, and makes decisions for future generations".
Vermont Botany Consulting works with landowners and users to build a culture of land stewards.
Vermont Botany Consulting Services
If you are a landowner, land manager or grower that wonders:
- What's growing here and why?
- Are invasive species present?
- What age is this forest?
- Does the land support wildlife?
- What type of soils and bedrock exists?
- Is there wetland habitat?
- What management practices could enhance the biodiversity, resiliency, and health of the land?
- Are there resources to be managed?
- Is the land being managed and utilized sustainably to the best of its ability?
- What would grow best here to meet ecological objectives?
Vermont Botany Consulting can help you with these questions and many more.
Consult provided is tailored specifically to the clients' goals and additional team members with specialized skills are added to a given project as needed.
about vermont botany consulting
The owner, Molly Willard, is an eighth generation Vermonter who values Vermont's natural and working landscapes. She has a B.S in Botany, is a licensed Vermont Forester, and holds a master's degree in Place-based Education- a theory focused on connecting people with their natural surroundings, in an effort to build a sense of place, meaning, and understanding.
Molly has 20 plus years of experience in consulting, project management, land management, and outreach education with specialized knowledge in botany, forest ecology, wetlands, and vegetable crop production.