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Join Brian Donahue for a Tap Talk on his new book, Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests. You may recognize Brian as a featured speaker from FSF’s 2023 Loving the Land Through Working Forests Conference. We are excited to host Brian for a talk on his new book that explores the relationship between human needs and forest health through his experience building a timber frame home with local wood. You can learn more about Slow Wood on the Yale University Press website.

Brian Donahue is Professor Emeritus of American Environmental Studies at Brandeis University, and a farm and forest policy consultant. He holds a PhD from the Brandeis program in History. He co-founded and for 12 years directed Land’s Sake, a non-profit community farm in Weston, Massachusetts, and now co-owns and manages a farm in western Massachusetts. He sits on the board of The Massachusetts Woodland Institute, and The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas. In addition to Slow Wood, Donahue is author of Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town (1999), and The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord (2004). He is co-author of Wildlands and Woodlands and A New England Food Vision.