The Woodlands Partnership of Northwest Massachusetts invites you to a special reading with Brian Donahue, author of Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests.

Donahue provides a new interpretation of the connection between American houses and local woodlands. He delves into how this bond was broken by the rise of a market economy of industrial resource extraction and addresses the challenge of restoring a more enduring relationship. Ultimately, this book provides a blueprint and a stewardship plan for how to live more responsibly with the woods, offering a sustainable approach to both fores try and building centered on tightly connected ecological and social values.

-Yale Agr.arian Studies Series