The Nightingale Gardens farmers combined efforts with the Trustees and Dorchester Food Co-Op to stage their annual harvest party last Sunday (Oct. 1) in the garden on Park Street near Codman Square. The garden is decades old and boasts numerous plots for those looking to grow food or to just get their hands dirty. Elnora Thompson, who started gardening there in the 1980s, runs
For the past 11 years, the Dorchester community has patiently awaited the opening of a neighborhood food cooperative. This summer, the wait will be over, according to John Santos, the general manager of the Dorchester Food Co-Op at 195 Bowdoin Street, soon to be operating as Boston’s only community and worker-owned grocery store. The facility’s goal is to challenge the
Years before city, state and federal tax credits came into the project, small-dollar investors played a major role in building the Dorchester Food Co-op.
Teens with Breath of Life Dorchester (BOLD) and their neighborhood partners last week highlighted the Dorchester Winter Market set up outside the Shawmut MBTA Station. The winter market has been around since 2014 and was located in the Great Hall until the Covid crisis forced the market to go online in 2021. But this year, the weather has been more of a challenge than the