An 'oasis' springs up in Mattapan | Dorchester Reporter

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

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