Our Farmers
Our mission: To transform vacant lots in Boston into sustainable urban farms
We combine the resources of community organizations, neighborhood associations, and local markets for fresh produce to accomplish our major goals: to create employment for community members at livable wages; to address food security issues by increasing local agricultural production capacity; to increase local access to affordable, nutrient-rich foods
Welcoming June …
As we prepare to welcome June, with all its brightness and heat, we like to pause and take a moment to remember what the fields looked like in March. Cool days spent removing last year’s crops and forming our raised beds, spreading and tilling in compost, seeding and protecting our first successions of greens and … Read more
May has arrived …
May has arrived, and we’re getting closer to our first harvests of the season. We’re designing vegetable wash stations at each of our sites to be certain all our vegetables are washed and cooled before the midday field heat moves into them. We’re also closing in on some big work at our newest farm site, … Read more
No Substitute For a Good Rain
We’ve been steadily irrigating our first plantings, aiding them in their germination during this extremely dry spring, but we are still very grateful for the substantial rain over the weekend. Drip irrigation and sprinklers can certainly help in periods of drought, but there is no substitute for a good rain soaking. Plants seem to somehow … Read more
Beginning Our 2012 Season
We’re very excited. We’re off to our earliest start ever. We’ve spread rich compost on our sites to nurture healthy soil and healthy plants, and with this dry and unseasonably warm weather, we’ve already seeded our first rounds of greens, radish, peas, and carrots. This year, we’ll also design, grow, and harvest our very own … Read more
We had a great season…
We had a great season, opening up a new plot we are now growing and three more negotiated for 2012! The MOVE (a Cambridge-based volunteer org) nearly “moved in” to City Growers giving us farm-hands 4 times this summer as well as some dedicated hands throughout the season. Anna, Eli, Ian and the teens from … Read more
