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A few years ago, when the city approached neighbors in the Edgewater Drive area of Mattapan to ask if they would want to build out a food forest on a landlocked city-owned vacant lot in their neighborhood, the residents’ first question was critical: What, exactly, is a food forest”? According to the Boston Food Forest Coalition (BFFC), a food forest involves a coalition of
City Councillor Ruthzee Louijeune hosted a breakfast with support of Haitian Americans United (HAU), the group that organized the previous Sunday’s Haitian Unity Parade on Blue Hill Avenue, last Thursday (May 18) as the city’s Haitian Americans celebrated their ancestry and called for more help for the Caribbean nation during events held to commemorate Haitian Flag Day at
Cutting the ribbon on a new cannabis dispensary or getting state approvals for marketing marijuana can seem like a normal course of business these days in Boston. But for a number of Dorchester operatives, the possession of permits represents years of navigating steep learning curves. After five years of meetings, cobbling together financing, and completing an endless number
Mayor Michelle Wu sat down for a wide-ranging interview with the Reporter in her City Hall office this week as she prepares to launch a multi-week tour of neighborhood parks, beginning in Fields Corner’s Town Field on Fri., May 12, at 10 a.m. The Reporter will publish a series of articles based on our conversation with her. We begin with her thoughts on safety concerns in the
As Tiffany Williams put the finishing touches on her planting of a tree in Dorchester’s Dr. Loesch Family Park on Wainwright Street last Friday, it was an exercise in celebrating a new life, and remembering one lost. For her, adding a tree in the park was about creating a living memorial to her mother, Jacqualine Williams, a Dorchester woman who was one of many who died during