your farm. anywhere.

Gardening in the city is nothing new: Boston (and Greater Boston) residents have long been growing their own food via urban in-ground vegetable gardens, raised-bed vegetable gardens, and container vegetable gardens anywhere the sun shines (including rooftops). But urban farming is another concept entirely. It's production-level agriculture, meaning growing enough produce to supply a restaurant, farm stand, CSA, or grocery store, and it's being taken to the rooftops where there's seemingly unlimited available space.

Don't let plastic touch your food, really? EVER? Why? HOW?

If Russia can turn Sochi, a summer resort village, into a Winter Olympic host city, why can’t we also flip the seasons and make a successful growing season out of our cold New England winter (without the environmental impact of refrigerating 710,000 cubic meters of snow through the summer to ensure enough for the games)?

At Green City Growers we call readying your garden for spring planting “Spring Awakening.” Even gardens with cold frames that extend the season, New England vegetable gardens require a little TLC and replenishment to ensure a spectacular growing season ahead.

Honey bees account for the necessary pollination of one third of everything we eat. One third! The increase in use of lawn chemicals, pesticides on crops and in gardens, and chemicals in the home is in large part to blame for the decimation of our bees… And there IS something we can do about it.