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Brook Farm

American  

noun

  1. a farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, where an experimental cooperative community was established from 1841 to 1847.


Brook Farm British  

noun

  1. an experimental communist community established by writers and scholars in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, from 1841 to 1847

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The recall affects 10,800 packages of eggs from Handsome Brook Farm, distributed starting November 22, with a “use by” date of January 5, 2025.

From Salon • Dec. 3, 2024

Decades before, in the 1840s, New England transcendentalists had organized Brook Farm in Massachusetts, born from a utopian template of a community of shared labor and rewards that could also be creatively stimulating.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2023

A: I entertained through most of the Clove Brook Farm renovation, but not so much when there was no kitchen.

From Seattle Times • May 31, 2021

Eric Skovsted and his wife Mary built a rink on their land at Joe’s Brook Farm and are successfully hosting the Caledonia Hockey Club for the season.

From Washington Times • Mar. 5, 2021

Certainly, Brook Farm was concrete enough, and the transcendentalists were, as a rule, interested in social reconstruction, though not in a way to touch popular emotion.

From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks