(Read now) Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town
·•●- Brian Donahue ·•●-
| #2338415 in Books | 1999-08-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.15 x6.38 x9.51l,1.45 | File Name: 0300076738 | 349 pages
||9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| A book that will inspire action|By A Customer|In Reclaiming the Commons, Brian Donahue has given us a remarkable portrait of a thriving community farm in Weston, Massachusetts called Land's Sake. In 1980 the nonprofit organization Land's Sake was formed in Weston, a suburb of Boston, to work closely with the town's Conservation Commission on managing and using the town's gro|From Publishers Weekly|The title of Donahue's visionary, green blueprint for transforming the face of America's suburbs is no mere metaphor. He wants each suburb or town in the U.S. to establish a local commons, a swath of the surrounding countryside that would
This book is a lively account of a community working to combat suburban sprawl and discover how to live responsibly on the land. A founder of the Land's Sake community farm in Weston, Massachusetts, Brian Donahue describes the joys and sorrows of farming in the suburbs. He calls for every community to protect its common land, establish community farms, and engaged citizens with the land on which they live.
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