The Trustees of Reservations and the city formally dedicate the Winthrop Community Garden, 25 Winthrop St. in Roxbury, between 10 a.m. and noon on Saturday.
The city's newest community garden features a large metal statute honoring the Black Panther Party by Killion Mokwete, an assistant professor of architecture at Northeastern.
Blueprint submitted with proposal.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a beehive at a community garden at 499 Main St. in Sullivan Square. Read more.
The Boston Public Facilities Commission this morning approved handing over a quarter-acre parcel off River Street in Mattapan to a group that will transform it into a "food forest" stocked with trees from which anybody can pick berries and nuts, and another parcel off Chelsea Street in East Boston to a group that will create a community garden. Read more.
The Christian Science Monitor introduces us to the Boston Food Forest Coalition, which is busy building a new type of community gardens in Boston:
Each garden will host a panorama of food-producing plants, including trees and shrubs to mimic woodlands. The BFFC also aims to “revive and conserve” old, neglected city apple orchards.
Jeremy Alistair Dick happened upon a car crashed into the Berkeley Community Garden in the South End tonight. He reports:
Major damage to fence and water service.
Growing on the vine at the Southwest Boston Garden Club, a community garden at Rowe Street and Cummins Highway in Rolindale.
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