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Reclaiming the Commons - Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town (Paperback)
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Reclaiming the Commons - Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town (Paperback)
Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series
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This book is a lively account of a community working to combat
suburban sprawl, to protect a large part of the landscape as common
land, and to enjoy the land productively in an ecologically
sustainable way. Based on the practical experience of one New
England town, the book urges suburban environmentalists to go
beyond preserving open space to actively engaging people with the
places where they live. Brian Donahue, an environmental historian,
in 1980 was a founder of Land's Sake, a community farm in Weston,
Massachusetts. Working with the town's Conservation Commission,
Land's Sake cultivates a twenty-five-acre organic fruit, flower,
and vegetable farm, makes apple cider and maple syrup, maintains a
sixty-five-mile trail system, harvests firewood and timber from
fifteen hundred acres of town forest, and has kept draft horses and
sheep. Donahue recounts the joys and sorrows of farming the
suburbs. But beneath the light hearted tales of sheep straying into
tennis courts and middle-school students tapping sugar maples in
the town cemetery runs an incisive ecological history of New
England and a penetrating analysis of how to live responsibly with
this difficult but rewarding land. Donahue concludes with a call
for all places to protect common land and establish community
farms-especially in the suburbs, where most Americans live and
where, like it or not, environmentalists may make their most
lasting mark on the world.
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