Brook Farm (5,000 years of history) The Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag are the holders of the land that includes Boston and Brook Farm. Archaeological evide

Brook Farm (5,000 years of history) The Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag are the holders of the land that includes Boston and Brook Farm. Archaeological evidence shows that Massachusett have lived on the now Brook Farm land for at least 5,000 years. From the 1600s through 1900s the land that would become Brook Farm was a 170-acre farm with a farmhouse near Baker Street. It was owned by the Ward and later Richards families. ~ https://www.boston.gov/departments/archaeology/brook-farm-archaeological-site https://www.boston.gov/departments/archaeology/brook-farm-ar... Massachusett Tribal life was matriarchal. Women of the tribe trapped small game, gathered shellfish, wild grains, greens and herbs for food and medicine. The women of the tribe owned and tended the planting fields, and preserved the harvests. The children were employed to keep the birds away from the planted fields. The women also built and owned the wetus (summer huts) and winter long houses that the tribal members lived in. ~ https://massachusetttribe.org/massachusett-tribal-life https://massachusetttribe.org/massachusett-tribal-life What we have learned; the Massachusett Tribe nailed communal living for several thousand years, whereas a bunch of European transcendentalist utopians couldn't make that last past 6 years. The farmer's co-op I'm part of has been running along for nigh on 90 years now, I'm sure longer running ones exist about the world. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBH_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBH_Group