Residents brave snow to meet farmers; pig grazing plan dropped for Hadfield land

Posted 1/25/16

 

In spite of ta building snowstorm, over 40 community members gathered Saturday afternoon at the Westport Grange for the Westport Land Conservation Trust's (WLCT) third annual Meet Your Local Farmer event.

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Residents brave snow to meet farmers; pig grazing plan dropped for Hadfield land

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In spite of ta building snowstorm, over 40 community members gathered Saturday afternoon at the Westport Grange for the Westport Land Conservation Trust's (WLCT) third annual Meet Your Local Farmer event.

Participating farms included Silk Tree Farm, Hana's Honey, Skinny Dip Farm, Ivory Silo Farm, Peet's Farm, Cluck and Trowel, Buzzards Bay Brewing, and Healthy Futures Farm.

Due to the snow, WLCT's forum on leasing land to local farmers has been rescheduled to February 4 at 6 p.m. at the Westport Town Farm, 830 Drift Road. During the forum, plans for a small scale farm lease to help WLCT reclaim 10 acres of former agricultural land at the Headwaters Conservation Area will be discussed.

WLCT executive director Ryan Mann held an impromptu meeting for community members who arrived to attend the forum on Saturday. During this meeting, he met with abutters to the Headwaters Conservation Area and told them that WLCT has withdrawn plans for a user agreement which would have brought 8 to 12 heritage breed pigs to graze at the site of the upland meadow restoration on the Herb Hadfield Conservation Area this summer.

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