A Green New Deal of our own
Eastie Farm is a small scale demonstration of the Green New Deal: a clean energy greenhouse, jobs, food security, climate-mitigating green spaces…
Eastie Farm is a small scale demonstration of the Green New Deal: a clean energy greenhouse, jobs, food security, climate-mitigating green spaces…
Eastie Farm responds to the COVID crisis! Eastie Farm is a grassroots effort to give East Boston a space for growing food and building community What began as an overgrown,…
heather@eastiefarm.com Teaching climate literacy is one of the most impactful things anyone can do. It’s important and will affect our youth more than anything else will. The Belle Isle Marsh…
Eastie Farm’s zero emissions greenhouse officially opened on March 22, 2023. There was indeed a ribbon-cutting: What was the ribbon? A raspberry vine wrapped in 100% fibre dyed in natural…
The kids scratch their heads as they ponder the meaning of the large word written on the board. Biodiversity. What could that possibly mean? Both morning classes of 4th, 5th and…
Nine children excitedly sharpen their pencils to write today’s date on the next empty page of their notebooks. Pollination is today’s theme! Miss Heather posed a variety of questions to…
Even though I grew up in the hot tropics, I love winter and have lately been missing it. So obviously I was excited about the snow last night. I ventured…
Check out this quick and easy omelet demo from Nick Hahn, our resident comedian and amateur chef! If you have suggestions for dishes we should make, or if you want…
Butternut squash is commonly thought of as a hard-to-cut squash that’s difficult to work with. Butternut squash is a member of the cucurbitaceae family otherwise known as the melon family.…
Last Saturday we had a great time helping our friends over at the Grace Federated Church with their own food distribution program! People came from across the neighborhood to pick…
We are excited to get food to the community again this year! We held our first distribution at 1 PM on Friday, January 13th and distributed food to over 60…
Extreme Flood to Extreme Food In the earliest days of Eastie Farm, i.e. even before we formed a non-profit organization, we diverted water from neighbors’ downspouts away from their walls…