Tag: Dorchester
How to Extend Boston’s Growing (and Holiday) Season
Your tomatoes exploded in October’s snow, your lettuce succumbed in a long, painful wilt, and your parsley is looking a little crunchier ever day. Fall is passing, and winter is nigh. How is a thrifty Bostonian to supply herself with fresh vegetables through the coming snows? Should you hoard your few precious turnips, gnawing on [...]
Where to Watch: Women’s World Cup & Revolution VS Manchester United in Boston
Tomorrow doesn’t get much bigger for Boston soccer fans. At noontime, the U.S. women’s soccer team, fresh off their amazing victory over Brazil, will square off against France in the Women’s World Cup in Germany. Tomorrow night, global power Manchester United will be at Gillette Stadium to face the New England Revolution. So, here’s a [...]
A Brief History of Harambee Park
It’s been an awful week for Harambee Park’s neighbors; a four-year-old boy was shot there on June 27. He has woken from his coma, and wants to go home, poor kid; may he recover quickly and completely. In the meantime, the Boston Globe has published a map of violent crimes committed around Harambee Park since [...]
Boston Park Pile-up: Summer News on Green Boston
I’ve been visiting in-laws south of the Mason Dixon line since last week, and interesting developments in Boston parks have been piling up in my inbox. In lieu of a round-up, I’m putting up a pile-up. 1) Most disappointing news: MBTA denies Mattapan Greenway crossing The MBTA dealt what seems to be a death blow [...]
Boston’s Future Tenant Farmers
The old tomato vines are black and oozing, the Halloween pumpkins have been ravaged by squash-crazed squirrels—last summer’s gardens are dead and gone, but Dorchester residents are already thinking about next year’s crops. On Wednesday, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) held a hearing on Boston Urban Agriculture Rezoning primarily aimed at four properties in Mattapan/Dorchester [...]
Lead Testing in Boston’s Urban Gardens
If you were snuggled up with the latest Landscape Architecture on Monday, you might have missed the urban gardening bombshell that came out of the Geological Society of America’s meeting, of all places. Wellesley College researchers Emily Estes, Megan Carter-Thomas and Daniel Brabander found that the gardens owned by The Food Project in Roxbury and Dorchester are [...]
Neponset River Trail: The Biggest New Park You’ll Never Hear About
Thank goodness there are still some local newspapers in this hemisphere. Otherwise, how would you ever find out that the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is planning to add 4.5 MILES to the 2.5-mile Neponset River Trail? Here’s what the Quincy’s Patriot Ledger newspaper had to say about it, and two walking tours [...]
