Boston Community Gardens and The Trustees invite you to this year’s Urban Agricultural Fair on Saturday, September 20 from 11 – 3. The venue is Roxbury Heritage Park, 183 Roxbury Street in Boston, and its free. Enjoy a harvest competition with case prizes, cooking demonstrations, garden workshops, music, food, and fresh produce from local farms. No sign up needed – just come!
Mayor Thomas M. Menino, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), and the Mayor’s Office of Food Initiatives are launching a new project to update the Boston Zoning Code to support Urban Agriculture (UA) city wide. UA is small scale farming that makes healthy, fresh food more accessible and empowers Bostonians by creating economic opportunity. Examples of urban farming include rooftop greenhouse agriculture, aquaponics (fish farming), community farms, farm stands, composting, and other fresh food-producing endeavors. The kickoff and “visioning” meeting will take place Monday, January 30, from 6 – 8:30 pm at Suffolk University, 73 Tremont Street, 9th floor. The keynote speaker is Will Allen, Founder and CEO of Growing Power Inc. Will is a former pro athlete and 2008 McArthur Foundation Genius Grant recipient for his work on urban farming and sustainable food productions.
Please bring some form of ID (drivers license, credit card) to clear building security, or you may send your full name prior to January 27 to john.read.BRA@cityofboston.gov. You may call Tad Read, Senior Planner, at 617-918-4264 for more information.
Boston University presents Rachel Eden Black, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Gastronomy Program, in a free lecture on Wednesday, April 6 beginning at 6 pm at 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, entitled Urban Agriculture, the City, and Perceptions of Public Space. A reception will follow the talk. Reservations are required – please call 617-353-9852. The program is part of BU’s series “Taking Food Public.” Food is a focus of highly intimate and personal behaviors, while at the same time serving as a central force in political, social, and economic behavior and discourse. “Taking Food Public” epitomizes the slogan that “the personal is political” while exploring all the ways that people explicitly produce, consume, exchange, or construct meanings with food in public spaces. Image of Mayor Menino at ReVision House, Inc. from www.theepochtimes.com.
