Join FSF at Riverside Brewing Company for a tap talk by author Brian Donahue. He will be showcasing his new book, Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests. You may recognize Brian from the Foundation’s 2023 Loving the Land Through Working Forests Conference, when he was a featured speaker. We are excited to host Brian again as he explores the relationship between human needs and forest health through his experience building his family’s timber frame home with local wood. You can learn more about Slow Wood on the Yale University Press website.

The event will be held at Riverside Brewing Company in Cambridge Springs, PA. We will gather in the private event room at the back of the restaurant. Food and drink will be available to purchase.

RSVPs are appreciated. Call 814-694-5830 or email [email protected] to RSVP.

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 Franklin Land Trust. 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, A New England Food Vision, and Beyond the Illusion of Preservation.