Two Lowell-based organizations, the Latinx Community Center for Empowerment and Kids in Tech Inc., were highlighted at the Social Innovation Forum's Annual Social Innovator Showcase May 16 at the Artists for Humanity Epicenter in Boston.
The Edgewater Food Forest in Mattapan is a formerly vacant lot now filled with fruit trees and berry bushes. Anyone in the community can harvest food for free.
The U.S. has more than 85 community food forests in public spaces from the Pacific Northwest to the Deep South, according to a crowd-sourced repository.
A new food forest is growing in Mattapan this week, the result of an effort by volunteers who deployed in groups to locations across the city last weekend for projects organized by Rebuilding Together Boston, a community-focused non-profit service organization celebrating its 30th year of facilitating such events. On Saturday afternoon, one of the teams was busy transforming