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URL:https://newtonconservators.org/events/2025-annual-dinner-meeting/
SUMMARY:2025 Annual Dinner Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Can Farming Save Open Space? A Very Old Debate\nWHAT:\nNewton C
 onservators’ Annual Dinner Meeting\n\nWHEN:\nThursday May 8\, 2025.   
  The registration deadline for this event was May 1.\n6 pm Social gatheri
 ng with hors d’oeuvres and cash bar\n7 pm Dinner\, business meeting\, aw
 ards ceremony and keynote speaker\n\nWHERE:\nAmerican Legion Post 440\, 29
 5 California St\, Newton MA 02458\n\nAWARDS:\nEnvironmentalist of the Year
 \nNewton Community Farm Board of Directors\, represented by Paul Holt and 
 Michael Spalding\, Co-Presidents\n\nCharles Johnson Maynard Award\nLeaders
  of Newton Birding: Pete Gilmore\, Liane Hartnett\, Alison Leary\, Haynes 
 Miller\nSPEAKERS\nIntroduction:   Conservators board member Jon Regosin w
 ill introduce Greg and share the exciting story of how Newton transformed 
 its last working private farm into a public space for community-supported 
 agriculture and education.\nKeynote: Can Farming Save Open Space? A Very O
 ld Debate\nGreg Maslowe\, Farm Manager\, Newton Community Farm\nAs land pr
 ices increase throughout the United States and agricultural lands continue
  to be consolidated into massive corporate holdings\, the options availabl
 e to young farmers to acquire land are getting squeezed.  One innovative 
 approach\, found here in Newton and being explored in places like northern
  Colorado\, is to utilize open space for community farms. This approach ha
 s some significant benefits to the land holder as someone else takes finan
 cial and physical responsibility for maintaining and managing the land. Th
 ere are also potential environmental benefits as some farming techniques c
 an reverse soil carbon loss and actually provide a net sequestering of car
 bon\, which helps slow climate change. But it also raises the question of 
 whether intensively managed landscapes are what we mean by “open space.
 ” Greg will explore the pros and cons of farming on public lands\, harke
 ning back to a very old debate between two of the founders of the modern e
 nvironmental movement.\n\nGreg has been the farm manager at Newton Communi
 ty Farm since 2006.  He came to farming through his graduate work in envi
 ronmental and agricultural ethics. Greg loves talking with people\, young 
 and old\, about where their food comes from and how their answers and choi
 ces impact other life/lives. He feels fortunate to have found a way of lif
 e that allows him to be outside most of the time: a vocation that means he
 ’s in the dirt\, come rain or shine\, throughout the growing season\, pa
 rticipating in creating a better world\; and time during the off-season to
  explore the mountains on skis\, leading backcountry trips in the Green an
 d White mountains for the Boston Chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club.
  He is on the Board of Directors of the Urban Farming Institute and on the
  planning committee for Eastern Massachusetts Collaborative Alliance for F
 armer Training (EMass CRAFT).\nREGISTER  (the registration deadline for t
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 ATE (in lieu of attending)\n\nhttps://newtonconservators.org/ways-to-give/
 \n\nSPONSORS\n\nThank you to our generous sponsors! (* List as of March 20
 \, 2025)\n\nDolan Pond Nester / Gold Sponsor:\n\nLalor and Patricia Burdic
 k\n\nChestnut Hill Garden Club\n\nPaddle Boston\n\nThe Village Bank\n\nCry
 stal Lake Swimmer / Silver Sponsor:\nAuburndale Builders\n\nCrystal Lake C
 onservancy\n\nNCF Harvester / Friend:\n\nFulfilled Goods LLC\n\nNewtonvill
 e Books\n\nHealth protocols:\nMasks are not required\, but we encourage al
 l attendees to take a home Covid test before attending this event.\n
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LOCATION:American Legion Post 440\, 295 California Street\, Newton\, MA\, U
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