Music in the Meadow

In 2022, CPF hosted the first Music in the Meadow event. A Symphoria String Quartet played an evening concert at CPF’s Burlingame Meadow which had been freshly mowed after the field-nesting birds had all fledged. Guests were treated to a beautiful backdrop of woodlands, home to CPF’s popular Burlingame-Fairchild Trails, and a stunning sunset sky. The juxtaposition of the quartet’s music, the beauty of nature, and the outcome of CPF and the community’s work to protect this important piece of land was inspiring. Given the great success of last year’s event, CPF will again welcome a Symphoria ensemble to the

Today, CPF manages approximately eight miles of all-season public trails on the 358 acres of protected lands in the Burlingame-Fairchild Hill area. This important recreational resource was made possible through the shared vision of numerous former landowners, including Peggy Hubbard and Faith Knapp, who were instrumental in the preservation of the lands traversed by the Burlingame and Fairchild Hill trails. With the help of community donations, the Cazenovia Preservation Foundation (CPF) purchased the parcel of land on Burlingame Road to provide permanent public parking and access to the woods and fields that host this network of trails. In doing so, CPF and the many donors who contributed to the project honored the legacy of conservation begun by the earlier residents of this area.

The Story…

When the property now known as the Burlingame Meadow was listed for sale in 2015, CPF launched a capital campaign, raising most of the funds needed to purchase the property to provide parking and permanent public access to the trails. Most of the purchase was made possible through generous gifts from neighbors and CPF Members and CPF financed the remainder with a small mortgage, which represents CPF’s only debt obligation today.

Help us “Bring the Note to Rest”

Between now and the 2023 performance of Music in the Meadow, CPF will be working to settle that debt so that we can repeat this and other conservation project successes on other important lands in and around our community.

Thanks to two generous donors, your gifts will be matched 1:1 up to $12,000. Any additional funds raised through the Bring the Note to Rest Campaign will be added to CPF’s Mission Fund, a reserve fund that is used to advance critical conservation objectives and secure important conservation properties. Please consider making a gift to the Bring the Note to Rest Campaign so that, collectively, we can protect more of our important lands.

A musical rest is the open space between notes, an absence of sound that contributes to the musical composition.  Just as the composer cannot overlook the importance of these empty spaces between the notes, our community, as stewards of this land, cannot overlook the importance of the open spaces in our landscape. They are essential to our experience of Cazenovia.