Discussion on New Brook Farm Tonight

Bill Tuttle will speak about the efforts to create a New Brook Farm in West Roxbury.

  Bill Tuttle will be a guest lecturer tonight speaking on the "New Brook Farm at the Site of the Brook Farm Utopian Community in West Roxbury of the 1840s." Tuttle is the president of New Brook Farm, a planned community farm that would be located on the historic site of Brook Farm. Tonight's discussion is at 7 p.m. at the Springhouse Independent and Assisted Living home. Brook Farm was perhaps the most famous utopian community of many in the 1840s because its members were well known intellectuals and Transcendentalists that included the author Nathaniel Hawthorne. The community and other interesting uses of the land on Baker Street will be discussed. Tuttle is a planner for the state of Massachusetts, and is supported by a large board of …

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A Patch of Green

A Vision of a "New" Brook Farm

This environmentally friendly column is brought to you by West Roxbury Saves Energy, a community-based organization committed to spreading the word that individuals can make positive choices that save money as well as the planet.

  Ray Porfilio, the author of this column, is a member of WRSE's Steering Committee and vice president of the New Brook Farm board of directors. In recent years urban agriculture and community farming have exploded in popularity as more people rediscover the benefits of growing their own vegetables and fruits, having access to fresh produce, and coming together with neighbors to produce food locally. Many of us are familiar with the lovely sight of the Newton Community Farm on Nahanton Road, particularly when its rows of vegetables are at full growth and bursting in green leaf. Wouldn't it be terrific if West Roxbury could support a similar endeavor in our own back yard? A couple of years ago a small group, led by West Roxbury resident …

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New Brook Farm Looking For Residents to Get Involved in Several Ways

New Brook Farm leader met with elected officials to discuss movement of developing West Roxbury property.

Maureen Layden does not profess to be a farmer by trade, she's actually a doctor. A doctor who shares a dream with several other Parkway residents - to create a New Brook Farm. The Brook Farm Historic Site sits at the Gardens at Gethsemane, and was the scene of a failed Transcendalist utopian society in the 1850s. On Monday morning, Layden met with West Roxbury District Councilor Matt O'Malley, State Rep. Ed Coppinger, Ann Cushing and John Regan of State Sen. Mike Rush's office, Terry Crowley of City Councilor At-Large John Connolly's office, and Chris Tracy, West Roxbury Neighborhood Coordinator for the Mayor's Office, at the Westbury to discuss the New Brook Farm. Layden is one of several residents, along with Bill Tuttle, who have been …

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