CREDITS AND CAPTIONS 



Cover: Ashfield, Massachusetts — down the road from Lesure Farm. In 1978, 

 Linwood Lesure was named "National Tree Farmer of the Year" by the 

 American Forestry Institute. 

 Photo by Arthur Griffin. 

 Design by The Center for Media Development, UMass/Boston. 



Inside Cover Photo Pages: 



Front page (from top left, clockwise) — 



Food and Agriculture Commissioner Fred Winthrop with Wallace C. 



Wilkie at his farm in Lakeville, the first selected for funding in 



the state Agricultural Preservation Restriction Program; 



Governor Edward J. King with APR program participants Pauline 



Allard of the Rainville Trust, Uxbridge, and Albert B. Loring of 



Norwell; 



Edward Swenson of Whitman, President of the Massachusetts Federation 



of Farmers and Gardeners Markets with daughter Sondra (left) and Bonnie 



Byrnes; 



Al Volante at his farm in Needham; 



Liz Walker of Channel 4 Eyewitness News at UMass Suburban Experiment 



Station in Waltham; 



Hereford enjoying farm life in Massachusetts. 



Back page (from top left, clockwise) — 



Carolyn Shiel, farmstand manager at Allandale Farm in Brookline; 

 Governor King and part of group attending proclamation ceremonies for 

 1980 Massachusetts Agriculture Week; 



at Fields Corner farmers market (left to right) Carol Fizer, 

 Joe Harper, Krista Scharf enberg, Kristen McCormack and Joe Ureneck, 

 members of Dorchester Gardenlands Preserve and Development Corp- 

 oration; 



at Lookout Farm in South Natick, Linda Blackman, consumer reporter 

 at Channel 7 News, and John Johnson, farmstand manager; 

 Joe Finnegan (left) , Manager of Little City Hall at Uphams Corner 

 and Bob Downing of Harmony Farm in North Reading; 

 Maggie O'Keefe at Allandale Farm in Brookline. 



Annual Report of the Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture: 



Edited by Janet Christensen, assisted by Melanie Botelho, Simmons 

 College student intern. Typed by Mary Lou Cafarella, assisted by 

 Virginia McHugh. 



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