South Cedar Swamp
Photo Courtesy of Don Burn
Fields at St Lukes
South Cedar Swamp is best accessed from St. Luke's Cemetery. This provides one of the best access points for exploring Cedar Swamp.
While most people see just a cemetery as they proceed down Route 135, if you enter the cemetery and take the dirt road on your right, you are rewarded with an unexpected area of fields, forests, and swamp.
This is the home of an organic farm operation and a community garden. In 2001 the parish formally opened trails across their property. These trails explore the fields seen at the left and link to trails that lead in to surrounding Sudbury Valley Trustees (SVT) and Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) properties.
In the winter, the SVT trail provides access down a frozen stream to Cedar Swamp Pond , the headwaters of the Sudbury River.
Photo Courtesy of Don Burn
Trail through the swamp
In May 2003, New England's premier wild edible plant expert, Russ Cohen, led a wild edible plant walk along the edges of the field and woodlands adjacent to St. Luke's Cemetery. Among the many wild plants with edible parts that he identified there were: autumn olive, choke cherry, day lily, early dandelions, dame's rocket, Japanese knotweed, pokeweed, sheep sorrel, lamb's quarters, arugula, crabapple, acorns, checkerberry, Indian cucumber root, charlock, hazelnut, wild grapes, wild carrot (better known as Queen Anne's Lace), wintercress, chickweed, field pennycress, partidgeberry, and Canada mayflower.
It is asked that you do not hike across the fields at times of bird nesting.
As in North Cedar Swamp, WCLT is hoping to build a boardwalk to allow access from downtown to the region described here.
Photo Courtesy of Don Burn
Pond at St Lukes
North Cedar Swamp (previous segment of the Charm Bracelet)
No next segment of the Charm Bracelet at this time.
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