Listen and watch as Margaret Heitz, Lexington Precinct 4 Town Meeting Member and member of the Waltham Fields Community Farm, relates her experience on the farm at our recent Candidates’ Night event.
Sounds like fun, right? It’s Lexington Community Farm Coalition’s mission to bring that kind of multi-generational and, yes, recreational community experience to Lexington by establishing our own community farm right here in our town.
Busa Farm CSA members, speak up! I’m sure you’ve had similar experiences so tell us about it in a comment below.
I was asked to post for the record, the 2 minute slide presentation that I gave at Lexington Town Meeting during the discussion period for the purchase of Busa Farm. The context was that the Community Preservation Committee had worded the motion to purchase the property for “open space, recreation and/or affordable housing”. Knowing that farming is a valid and common use of open space in many other towns, I thought it was important that Lexington Town Meeting members see this as an option for Lexington.
Peter Barrer, board member the Newton Angino Community Farm, sent us links to a couple of videos that provide some great insight into how their farm got started and how it runs now.
The first of these is a short excerpt from a segment that appeared on Needham public access TV.
This second is about 30 (fascinating) minutes long. It includes lots of details about the history of the farm, the efforts to acquire the land, visits to a CSA operation in Framingham and a range of interviews with supporters.
