The Nipmuc plan to develop an Agri-hood using Indigenous land use models where people actively use traditional and in-depth local knowledge of the land to create resiliency and sustainability while maintaining a deeply reciprocal relationship with the earth and its kin. For the families, it’s a chance to grow and eat healthy, life-maintaining foods. The Agri-hood is a way to help people develop real relationship with the land and to build community among people.
Before Belchertown existed, this land fed Indigenous communities including the Nipmuc, whose descendants remain the closest living kin to the Valley’s original stewards – this is a chance to return it to their care at little cost to the state or town.
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Belchertown-Nipmuc Farm Conservation Alliance
We are a group of Belchertown residents and other allies working with the state-recognized Hassanamisco Nipmuc Band (the Native peoples of our area) who intend to help conserve the Lampson Brook Farm and the legacy of farming in our town.
