Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms & Forests in a New England Town - Couverture souple

Donahue, Brian

 
9780300089127: Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms & Forests in a New England Town
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0300089120 ISBN 13 : 9780300089127
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2001

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Brian Donahue is assistant professor of American environmental studies on the Jack Meyerhoff Foundation at Brandeis University.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300089120
ISBN 13 
9780300089127
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780300076738: Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms & Forests in a New England Town

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0300076738 ISBN 13 :  9780300076738
Editeur : Yale University Press, 1999
Couverture rigide