Concord Agriculture Committee updates membership, addresses housing challenge
Agriculture Committee · Meeting of May 14, 2026
Concord Agriculture Committee formally designates chair and clerk, welcomes new sworn member. Brian Cramer now chairs the committee and Grace Scimone serves as clerk, while Matt Eiland of Salt Box Farm was sworn in as a new member. The committee surfaced an emerging challenge facing local agriculture: farmworkers throughout Concord are struggling to find affordable housing, prompting members to seek clearer data on the scope of the problem.
Ag Day planning is underway with new nonprofit grant applications created by Liza Bemis of Hutchins Farm and Concord Cultural Council funding for musical performance secured by Dan Schmid of The Walden Woods Project.
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Source: the Agriculture Committee meeting of May 14, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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