Eastie Farm Design and Organization-Building Workshop
Activity: Walking tour of Jeffries Point neighborhood in East Boston followed by a design and planning workshop. Starting from the beautiful East Boston waterfront with a view of the Boston skyline, this walk will take us via a railway-turned-trailway, to Eastie Farm’s zero emissions greenhouse. In the process, you will get a glimpse of East Boston’s ship-building industry, its current climate vulnerability, and the immigrant, working class community’s resilience in the face of historic and ongoing challenges.
Date: Sunday, November 16
Timeframe: 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Cost: Donations to Eastie Farm are not required appreciated.
Lunch and snacks served. We can get Salvadoran, Colombian, Peruvian, Mexican, and Italian food in the neighborhood, not to mention a few other cuisines and “regular” American fare.
Kannan Thiruvengadam LF ’24 is a co-founder and director of Eastie Farm, a community-based initiative devoted to growing good food and great people. He invites the Loeb Fellows to help him with two complementary efforts:
- Site planning for the EastieFarm “campus”
- Finding ways to make the invisible visible: The geothermal well, for instance, is underground and therefore not visible. Yet, it is the most critical piece of infrastructure in the greenhouse. What would you make? A 3-d model? A 2-d sign? An animation that can be shared with visitors?
Whether you are an architect (landscape or portrait;)), planner, artist, community organizer, or social justice warrior, you have a role here. The products of this workshop will feed directly into Eastie Farm’s state grant application to Lead by Example, so this work will be immediately impactful (Statement of Interest is due Jan 15, 2026).
