Submitted by Tom Andersen on Tue, 12/01/2009 - 4:28pm.
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Two friends of Westchester Land Trust have published books recently, and both are worth a look.
One is called Over the Rainbeau: Living the Dream of Sustainable Farming, and was written by Lisa Schwartz, Judith Hausman and Karen Sabath. Lisa is the proprietor of Rainbeau Ridge Farm, one of our neighbors here in Bedford Hills (she and her husband, Mark, with Frank and Carol Nickell, also gave us the beautiful building that is now our headquarters).
Here’s what the Rainbeau Ridge website says about the book:
Experience the romance and challenges of Lisa's journey from tending a pair of goats to building a multifaceted sustainable farm in the New York City suburbs and becoming an award-winning cheesemaker.
This inspirational memoir comes to life with tantalizing original and chef-created recipes, aspirational how-tos and captivating photographs.
Lisa, Judith and Karen are making the book available at a special discount to Westchester Land Trust supporters, and will also make an additional contribution to the land trust for each book they sell through our website.
The book’s list price is $34.95. If you order it thought their website, it’s 20 percent off, or $27.95. But, if you type “WLT” into the coupon code slot on the website’s order form, you’ll get another 5 percent off.
So you’ll pay just $26.56. And Rainbeau Ridge will send us $5. So if you’re interested, click here.
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The second book is Walkable Westchester,written by Jane and Walt Daniels, of Yorktown. It features 187 places in the county where you can hike, including nine that Westchester Land Trust helped protect.
We’re happy to offer it for $20, which includes shipping and handling. Net proceeds will go to support Westchester Land Trust’s land preservation work.
Email bettysue@westchesterlandtrust.org to order a copy.
The book was published by the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference. It is divided in eight sections: Tiny Treasures, Pocket Parks, Morning Strolls, Afternoon Jaunts, Day Trippers, Large Parks, Linear Corridors, and Trail Systems.
It took Jane and Walt, who have long been involved in land protection efforts in Westchester (Wal is co-chair of Yorktown's open space advisory committee and has been instrumental in the acquisition of the 200-acre Stony Street property), almost eight years to complete, during the course of which they visited 62 places they had never even heard of before starting their project.