Waste Water Treatment at Sylvester Manor Educational Farm

Our guest is Sara Gordon of the Sylvester Manor Educational Farm on Shelter Island. We talk about the Farm’s history, its waste water treatment system evaluation project and Ms. Gordon’s work in land preservation and ecology.

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Information about Suffolk County's waste water treatment program can be found at http://reclaimourwater.info/


The history of Sylvester Manor is the subject of 
Mac Griswold's book The Manor: Thee Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island (Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2013).  Ms. Griswold read from the book on WPKN's East End Ink