Kristin O’Brien, SVT’s Conservation Restriction Manager, ensures that we monitor each of our 99 CRs at least once each year. A staff member or a trained volunteer generally tours the property with the landowner so we can discuss any changes to the land and can point out issues that need to be resolved, such as when a neighbor has dumped brush in an unauthorized location.
In early August, Kristin toured Stonefield Farm in Acton, where SVT and the Town of Acton co-hold an APR on land owned by Boston Area Gleaners (BAG), a nonprofit organization that grows and gleans produce for hunger-relief agencies. Kristin met with Usha Thakrar, Dylan Frazier, and Dan Kamen of BAG as well as Ian Bergemann and Olivia Barksdale from the Town.
The group discussed BAG’s farming operations and reviewed the progress that BAG made on building a new loading dock, an activity permitted by the APR. As with annual visits to most CRs and APRs, Kristin did not find any violations that needed to be addressed.
For more information about conservation restrictions, see CRs Protect Land Forever.