Updated on December 22, 2020 at 12:10 am
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For Lisa Evans and Tim Smith, building a greenhouse in the heart of Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood has been a labor of love.
The former Boston school teachers had a vision to transform a vacant lot, overgrown with weeds and strewn with trash, into an urban farm.
Today, they grow everything from peppers to radish microgreens inside a 4,600-square-foot greenhouse.
For Smith, it’s a symbol – beauty and reclamation of land that was left in disrepair. They had help along the way, participating in government assistance programs for the project.
But soon after they cut the ribbon at We Grow Microgreens, the pandemic arrived. Now, many of their top restaurant customers are barely hanging on.