Posts by Brooke Werley
Brooke Werley is a farmer and writer living in Burlington, VT. She writes farm profiles for agrariantrust.org and keeps the blog https://thisgrowingup.wordpress.com/. She can be reached at thisgrowingup@gmail.com.
Community effort saves historical Massachusetts farmland from development. While searching for more permanent farmland, Jeremy Barker-Plotkin of Simple Gifts Farm tended 5 acres in Belchertown, Massachusetts on land managed by The New England Small Farm Institute (NESFI). The 100 or so acre parcel, as Jeremy estimates, served an an incubator for small start-up farms in…
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