Medway & Millis May 2019

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RIGHT TO FARM
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mals, and it’s work, and every now
and then you’re going to know it’s
there, but so what?” says Glenn
Trindade, Medway Selectman
and member of the Board of Directors
for Medway Community
Farm.
“We want everybody to know
there are people who support
agricultural pursuits in town,”
says Atwood. “If we don’t it’s
just to be more grocery stores
and Starbucks.”
Atwood explains that as long
as farmers abide by accepted
farming practices, following rules
and regulations of the town, the
Right to Farm bylaw supports
them. “The onus is on the farmers
to follow accepted practices,”
says Atwood. “They can’t be
doing things that are abhorrent
to those normal practices. There
are guidelines by the state Department
of Agriculture.
“The Right to Farm Bylaw
doesn’t supersede any of our regulations,
but it makes clear that,
look, if someone moves in, and all
of a sudden (they realize) that pastoral
little landscape has odors in
it, or if the tractor coming down
the street holds up traffic, we all
know that this is part of farming,
and we’re reaffirming that right to
do so,” says Trindade.
“We want to show support
to local farmers, to continue to
show how serious we are about
reaffirming agriculture in our
local community,” says Dempsey.
“The longer and more successful
we can keep those farms,
the better,” says Trindade, who
says keeping farms in business
keeps more Medway land from
being sold and developed. The
Medway Agricultural Committee
is also looking to support
farmers by growing its farmers’
market and bringing it back to
Choate Park this June.
If the Right to Farm bylaw
passes at Town Meeting, Medway
will join surrounding towns
Millis and Holliston, as well as
138 other towns in the Commonwealth
with Right to Farm
bylaws, according to the Massachusetts
Agricultural Commission
(www.massagcom.org).
Trindade says the proposed
bylaw was carefully drafted.
“What it does is it makes it
clear to people who say, well, if
there’s a right to farm, my nextdoor
neighbor could decide he
wants to be in the egg business.
If he meets all the requirements
set by law, then, yeah,” says Trindade.
“I see a real value—in
teaching kids this is where your
food comes from, this is how it all
works, and having that local food
source option.”
Local Poets Featured in
Children’s Poetry Anthology
by Amy Mevorach
A reception, gallery display
and book signing for the children’s
poetry anthology An Assortment
of Animal” will be held
at the Hopkinton Center for the
Arts from 1-3 p.m. on Saturday,
May 18. The anthology includes
poetry by members of the Writers’
Loft, including popular children’s
book author Jane Yolen as
well as Brian Lies whose picture
book The Rough Patch is a Caldecott
Honor Book and ALA Notable
Book for 2019. Among
the illustrated poems are pieces
by two Millis writers, Dave
Pasquantonio and Sally Hinkley.
Hinkley, a children’s book
author and art teacher at the
Danforth Museum and School,
wrote and illustrated two poems,
“Pigeons” and “Tracing the
Lines.” The latter is a poem
about elephants, which she had
experience illustrating while
working on a middle grade
book. “I started with picture
books,” she said. “I love storytelling,
exploring different ways
of doing that, visually or with
writing.”
Pasquantonio writes primarily
speculative fiction for adults,
but responded to the call for
submissions with two poems, “A
Platypus Looks Like a Platypus
Should” and “Each Is Great,”
a conversation between large
felines. “It’s hard work writing
for children, and hard work writing
poetry,” he said. “I hadn’t
appreciated how difficult it is to
make your 40 words sing.”
Both writers joined the Writers’
Loft soon after its founding
in 2013. Located at 20 North
Main Street in Sherborn, the
Loft offers working space,
workshops, critique groups
and networking opportunities
for writers. “Most of us came
into the Loft very solitary writers,”
Pasquantonio said. “Being
around people who have worked
hard and made it, you see how
it’s done.” For Hinkley, the Loft
helped her in the process of procuring
an agent. “You learn so
much being there. My writing
improved so much.”
Events, workshops and critique
groups are listed on the
Loft calendar at https://www.
thewritersloft.org/calendar.
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