The Warren Street pharmacy in Roxbury is fourth Walgreens branch to close in Boston since November 2022. All four of the recently shuttered Walgreens branches have been in mostly Black and Latino neighborhoods.
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