The Nightingale Gardens farmers combined efforts with the Trustees and Dorchester Food Co-Op to stage their annual harvest party last Sunday (Oct. 1) in the garden on Park Street near Codman Square. The garden is decades old and boasts numerous plots for those looking to grow food or to just get their hands dirty. Elnora Thompson, who started gardening there in the 1980s, runs
Residents describe Mattapan as a center of Black life in Boston. A residential neighborhood in the south part of the city, it's been largely untouched by the kind of development changing the face of so much of Boston.