Once part of a massive estate belonging to General Samuel Parker, Brookwood Farm’s 70 acres were owned and operated as a gentlemen’s farm by Henry Saltonstall Howe until he donated the property to the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation in 1976.
Mr. Howe’s goal in donating the property (and enlarging the Blue Hills Reservation in the process) was to preserve its pastoral character. He lived on the land until his death in 1994.
Today, Brookwood includes a community-based organic farm, shares of which are about as prized as babysitters and Red Sox tickets. The farm is on the National Register of Historic Places and retains an 18th century barn now under restoration by the North Bennet Street School of Boston.
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There’s an interesting video showing that barn being dis-assembled at http://bit.ly/r2tlb