Reclaiming the commons

Name: Reclaiming the commons
ISBN: 9780300076738

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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.

Format: 329 pages
First published: 1999
Publishers: Yale University Press

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.

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.

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