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

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 engage citizens with the land on which they live. "This is an extremely useful book on community economy. It seems to me not at all to oversimplify the subject, and yet it is always clear. It applies good sense to problems that people have often felt without thinking or knowing much about. It is well-written and thoroughly readable." Wendell Berry