LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Siena Farms Supports Preservation of Pantry Brook Farm
Resident and farm owner Chris Kurth urges residents to attend and vote at Annual Town Meeting.
As a Sudbury native and farmer/owner of Siena Farms, a 50-acre vegetable farm here in North Sudbury, I am writing to passionately encourage every voting town resident to come to Town Meeting next week to raise their hand in support of the permanent preservation of Pantry Brook Farm (Article 30). Preserving farmland preserves – and creates – farming. Indeed, there would be no Siena Farms if not for the devoted work of the Sudbury community over the last half-century in preserving some of its most productive farmland, as the majority of our annual cropping occurs on protected farmland here in Sudbury. As a result, we are able to grow fresh organic food to serve a 500-member CSA community, as well as area farmers’ markets and restaurants, …
Kirsten Vandijk
2:00 pm on Saturday, May 5, 2012
I'm not quite understanding why this would equate to subsidizing farmers. This is Open Space--Green Space--being beneficially used by local citizens for the, pardon the pun, grass roots farming initiative. The land is not being developed into commercial or industrial space not is it falling pray to large scale homes or worse. Sudbury needs more of this type of activity. I just don't see any … more ›