No matter where in East Boston you live, our goal is to offer you a space where you can join neighbors to grow food, enjoy healthy and nutritious produce, and learn how to steward our community and the natural world.
Visit us!
Use our Google Map to check out our locations! All of our Eastie Farm main sites (294 Sumner St, 6 Chelsea Terrace, & 293 Border Street) are open to the public. Learn more about each site and its history below.
Eastie Farm Sites
294 Sumner St
Where it all began! This is the original Eastie Farm site. In 2015, neighbors got together after an abandoned lot was misused and became a place for litter. Today, our Sumner site is a combination of growing, event, entertainment, education and food distribution space open to all.
6 Chelsea Terrace
This is the second site we’ve acquired through the Department of Neighborhood Development. We started here in 2018 using the same grow bags we used to get Sumner Street up and running. After a few seasons of taming the weeds and growing, we received the initial grant to build the greenhouse. Now, our geothermal greenhouse is the first of its kind in New England, harnessing the heating and cooling powers of our Earth to maintain an ideal growing temperature year-round. You can find out about the project and see our progress here.
Our volunteer community weeding the beds so our lettuce, eggplant and peppers could grow. This was in 2020, the last year it would remain a completely outdoor garden.
Over the years, the Greenhouse at 6 Chelsea Terrace has become a vibrant community event space and growing environment. From concerts to solstice parties to cooking workshops, our greenhouse holds so many wonderful memories of our beloved East Boston community!
Our Garden (293 Border St)
Our Garden came under our management in 2017, with Jackie becoming the first of our site managers in 2018 when she came on as a volunteer. The site has undergone a renovation, offering new raised beds, a small greenhouse on site, and beautiful community artwork. We share stewardship of this garden with other community partners, working in tandem to build a shared growing space and educational tool.
Partner Sites:
Our school sites help students get their hands dirty and learn experientially. We find that kids are more ready to try vegetables and herbs that they themselves grew. Faculty and staff shared that the green spaces we foster are also serving as de-stressing spaces for them.
Sam Adams Elementary School
We’ve managed a site at Adams Elementary from 2017-2022. This site was directly connected to the recess yard of the school so there were kids constantly in and out of the garden. The site manager at the time, Roberto (with the yellow hat in the picture below) did a great job involving families by having his harvest events directly after school so they could pop in after pickup.
Donald McKay School
We were at the McKay School from 2018-2022, even starting our NATURE program with Piers Park Sailing Center and Harborkeepers here. NATURE stands for Nature As Teacher, Urban Resilience Education. We still run the program with PPSC today. We were in the McKay School every Friday and as soon as the weather breaks, we took the plans we guided the kids through and used them to plant the garden. Having outdoor space to grow in was a real boon for kids since they can take lessons and apply them immediately after walking out for recess.
Manassah E. Bradley School
We managed the Bradley School’s garden from 2021-2022. It was really a nascent garden with limited growing space. We tried to use what we had and get creative by finding new areas of the yard to grow in. We received a grant to add to the number of raised beds so the garden would increase in size and variety.
Dante Alighieri Montessori School
We partnered with the Alighieri School for several years, assisting parents who ran the garden for a few seasons and donating tools and a shed. After the success of our Junior Farmers program in summer of 2021, we were asked to formally manage the space.
