The rooftop is on its way to another great year. Back in the winter the DIRT crew, our Academic Year Program, planned the garden. They picked out the veggies, their varieties, and created a map of where everything will be planted. It was quite a fun exercise for all – the youth decided on some veggies that were never planted before on the roof, like corn and edamame, so this year will be an exciting experiment. They also chose to grow a giant pumpkin in one of the planter boxes, with one of the youth pushing for it adamantly and vowing to get it down somehow. Should be interesting!

The current news is that we finished planting the roof and we’ve also been in dialogue with the Boston Medical Center Food Pantry about donating produce. With the yield tripling last year, we hope it will increase more this year, and there will be plenty of produce to enjoy.