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Leading up to Acton Town Meeting, Susan Mitchell-Hardt and the Trustees of the Acton Conservation Trust (ACT) want residents to know about an important vote on June 21 - the opportunity to save the nearly 100 year-old, 51.5 acre Stonefield Farm. We ve been hanging in there for years and praying for a miracle, which happened this year, said Mitchell-Hardt, president of ACT.
The farm was founded by the Simeone family in 1929 and is considered an Acton landmark. It is located in South Acton along Martin, Stow and Liberty streets, as well as along the Assabet River Rail Trail.
According to Mitchell-Hardt, owners Paul, Carl, and Mike Simeone recently agreed to sell the farm to the Boston Area Gleaners (BAG), a nonprofit food rescue and relief organization. She said BAG has offered Acton a chance to place an agricultural preservation restriction (APR) on all 51.5 acres of the land - which means the land would be permanently kept as farmland.