The 13th annual Mattapan on Wheels free bike-a-thon took place last Saturday, with scores of riders gathering on Ryan’s Playground off River Street to engage in a morning of riding through trails and thoroughfares out of Mattapan and back. The event is staged by the Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition (MFFC), and Executive Director Shavel’le Olivier said they have focused on
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