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Title: Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town by Brian Donahue, Wes Jackson ISBN: 0-300-08912-0 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read!
Comment: Reclaiming the Commons is an excellent read for anyone interested in the natural history of New England, community farming, open space issues, and the value of farms in the landscape. This is a well written, thoughtful book that offers an inspiring vision for a future of locally produced food, protected farmland, and community involvement that farms help to create.
Rating: 5
Summary: A book that will inspire action
Comment: 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 growing public land. Its three founding principles were to care ecologically for Weston's land, to involve the community and especially young people with the land, and to be as self-supporting as possible through the sale of products and services. By thinking of the land as a rural space that could "benefit from our presence, rather than need to be protected from us," they opened the possibility that they could engage suburban youth with the land and produce high-quality natural products for local sale, offering ample educational and recreational activities while striking "a balance between protecting natural ecosystems and making sustainable, productive use of the land."
Land's Sake sends about one-fifth of their fresh organic produce to Boston's homeless shelters and food pantries, as well as sponsoring a Harvest for Hunger every September, thus ensuring that their surplus finds an assured wholesale market (the town pays the price to send the food to the inner city) which benefits the disadvantaged and disenfranchised in the nearby urban areas. Donahue shows that suburbia "is the condition of residing outside the city proper with little functional connection to one's neighbors, aside from the schools, and almost no functional connection to the land," and he shows that community farms on common land offer a vibrant opportunity to keep farmland from being lost to development, and to transform the suburban condition from alienation to connection. This is a surprisingly powerful and exciting book that will show suburban and city readers how to become more connected to their land and to their source of food.
Rating: 5
Summary: This is a fresh approach to sustainable suburban living.
Comment: This book,written by a newcomer in the environmental landscape, will become a landmark. It points the way to transform the suburban way of life into one that is sustainable.This it would do by converting suburban open spaces into community sanctuaries for agriculture,husbandry and forestry, administered by suburbanites themselves,especially by their youngsters.The great strength of the proposals is that they have been demonstrated to work by the author and his associates in the upscale Boston suburb of Weston. Another plus is the grace and humor with which the book is blessed.
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Title: The Farm As Natural Habitat: Reconnecting Food Systems With Ecosystems by Dana L. Jackson, Laura L. Jackson, Nina Leopold Bradley ISBN: 1559638478 Publisher: Island Press Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry, Norman Wirzba ISBN: 1593760078 Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The New Agrarianism: Land, Culture, and the Community of Life by Eric T. Freyfogle ISBN: 1559639210 Publisher: Shearwater Books Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Farms of Tomorrow Revisited: Community Supported Farms Farm Supported Communities by Steven McFadden, Trauger M. Groh ISBN: 0938250132 Publisher: Bio-Dynamic Farming & Garden Assn Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: New Roots for Agriculture by Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry ISBN: 0803275625 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: April, 1985 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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