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Name: Jacqueline Matchett on Nov 15, 2009Comments: Please keep this land for our local foods!!! We can find many sports places.... This is perfect land for growing - and not easy to come by.Flag
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Name: Joe Jewett on Nov 15, 2009Comments: We need to put our priorities in the right order. If the city can afford to buy this land then it should keep it as agricultural. Without farms we have no food and local farms are very important to a population center such as Northampton.Flag
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Name: Joanna Campe on Nov 16, 2009Comments: As the executive director of Remineralize the Earth, I realize the need to grow the food locally is going to become paramount and preserving this land is extremely important to food security, sooner than most people realize. This land can be used to incubate young farmers, teach people how to grow their own food as a city farm. This land should be preserved for farming. There will be other possibilities for recreational fields on city-owned land that is not prime agricultural land.Flag
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Name: Raymond Paquette on Nov 16, 2009Comments: Northampton cannot afford to lose more farmland.Flag
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Name: Tish Serrani on Nov 16, 2009Comments: Children do not need more playing fields as much as they need farms to play and learn on. To get their hands dirty by helping to plant and harvest and be a part of the very food they eat. Farm land is forever!Flag
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Name: Gary L. Schaefer on Nov 16, 2009Comments: Although we now live in South Deerfield, we lived for almost 20 in Northampton and still have two commercial properties there. We pay over $10,000 per year in property taxes there so we have a keen interest in the cities land use.Flag
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Name: Betsey Wolfson on Nov 16, 2009Comments: Once we lose farmland, it is gone forever. This is an invaluable resource that we must save!Flag
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Name: Ruth Von Goeler on Nov 16, 2009Comments: Taking prime agricultural land out of production at a time when food security is an increasing concern would be irresponsible. Please maintain farming as the primary use of this invaluable natural resource.Flag
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Name: Tilli Friedrich on Nov 16, 2009Comments: As a near resident of the Bean Farm, it is personally important to me to maintain the unique mix of farm and city that is quintessentially Florence. Also my property contains the same soil as the Bean Farm, and iI can attest that is is truly wonderful soil, it would be a shame to lose it to parking lots.Flag
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Name: Nancy Janoson on Nov 16, 2009Comments: Agriculture, please. Think of those of us who live here and what is best for us. We pay high taxes. We should live in peace.Flag
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Name: Joel Russell on Nov 16, 2009Comments: Make sure farmland soils are protected, even if there is some interim use for recreational purposes.Flag
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Name: Laura Biddulph on Nov 16, 2009Comments: The Bean Family Farm is a rare opportunity for us to preserve a piece of history that will help ensure a sustainable future.Flag
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Name: Carol Varsano on Nov 16, 2009Comments: It is extremely important to maintain good farm land in the Northampton area. With peak oil, it may not be long before this land is essential to grow the food we need in the Valley. Land for recreational games can be marginal. Prime farm land is getting very scarce.Flag
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Name: Ben Westbrock on Nov 16, 2009Comments: I am totally opposed to the further destruction of viable farm land. We are going to rue the day we are doing this.Flag