Successful applicants will be required to not only clear farms of the narcotic plant, but also any "growing equipment" found on the sites.
Successive views of a typical north-central Massachusetts landscape as it changes from old-growth forest, through agricultural clearing, farm abandonment and reforestation.
The natural area provides examples of old-growth forest; mature, second-growth forest; forests that had been cleared, farmed and abandoned at different times dating back more than 100 years; and meadow.
Human intrusion on the landscape, which today includes visitors who drive S.U.V.'s in the park's meadows, spinning their wheels to make doughnuts, dates to colonial times, when settlers cleared farms.
We cleared farms for free.
The countryside for this part is mostly tuart, jarrah and marri forest, with some wetland vegetation and some cleared farming land.
The remainder of the state consists of western prairies now given over to intensive agriculture; deciduous forests in the southeast, now partially cleared, farmed and settled; and the less populated North Woods, used for mining, forestry, and recreation.
Farmers use seasonal fires to clear and farm parcels of natural landscapes and rotate their crops while the previously farmed parcel is allowed to regain fertility and natural vegetation – a method known as swidden agriculture.
"Someone had been paid to clear the farm.
And it was clear the farm was not going to be able to produce enough tomatoes for the dinner, which was billed as an heirloom tomato festival.
