The Beacon ran an editorial about Boxborough's plans to create an Ag Commission. See the original here. A part of it is inlined below.

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A group of Boxborough residents are on the right track with their idea to create an Agricultural Commission in town.

Farming has been a practice in this small town since its beginnings and nowadays the pressure for more development is increasingly strong. Additional challenges face farmers, including the cost of doing business. And it’s no secret that agriculture has been on the decline in New England.

But some residents in Boxborough want the town to hold onto its bucolic past. They figure that one way to do that is for farmers to have a governmental body representing them and their interests. One of the tasks of the new commission may be to draft a right to farm bylaw for a future Town Meeting to consider.

In addition, an agricultural commission could bring farmers together to share challenges and solutions, making them feel more like a community than solitary businessmen toiling in their fields against the elements, the economy and development.

While the article is generally supportive of an Ag Commission, references to our "bucolic past" and agriculture being "on the decline" suggest anachronism on our part. Regardless of what the Beacon thinks, I hope more than a few of us see the value of maintaining our town's farmland and local, sustainable agriculture.