Wood duck boxes are a terrific – and easy – way to support and increase wood duck populations on your property. Two weeks ago our team wrapped up building and installing Read More…

Creating wildlife habitat and planting food plots has always been a passion of ours – and sunflowers are without a doubt one of our favorite projects. This season HELM planted over Read More…

  Just checking up on a few of our perennial wildflower meadows from last year, which are all coming up great! We are finishing up planting 4 new meadows this year, Read More…

In preparation for Spring, HELM completed an 11-acre prescribed burn on a property last week in Greene County. Prescribed burning is an efficient and cost-effective tool for land management and wildlife Read More…

HELM took an aerial video last week of an 11 acre sunflower plot we planted for a client on a farm outside of Standardsville. Usually as the end of January rolls around people are getting ready to Read More…

Great article on quail habitat in the latest Virginia Sportsman issue. http://www.thevirginiasportsman.com/  

One of our recently planted wildflower meadows is just starting to show its colors. A perennial wildflower meadow can take a few season before it fully establishes, so we temper the Read More…

Quail habitat has been in steep decline in Virginia over the past forty years – often in direct correlation with widespread development across the Commonwealth. By some estimates the quail Read More…

2010 was a record year for acreage enrollment in the Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) with an additional 272,000 acres entering the program! WRP is a cost-share program run through the Read More…