In the Media
From the Ground Up (Wildlands, Woodlands, Farmlands & Communities)
“Beyond the Supply Chain: Building Local Food Resilience Through Relationship”
Article by Hope Kelley, December 2024.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
“Planting Resilience in the Hearts of Bostonians”
Video by FEMA, December 2024.
Christian Science Monitor
“Food forests rise in Boston. Edible lots create green space – and community.”
Article by Sophie Ungerleider & Melanie Stetson Freeman, August 2024.
CBS
“Edgewater Food Forest in Mattapan Gives Neighbors Healthier Options”
Video by CBS News, August 2024.
Social Innovation Forum (SIF)
“An Evening of Elevating Impact in Local Communities”
Article by SIF Team, May 2024.
Dorchester Reporter
“A Food Forest Takes Root on a Jones Hill Side Street”
Article by Taylor Brokesh, April 2024
The BTS Center
“Cultivating Earth-Shaped Leadership: Ecological Imagination in Organizational Life”
Report by the BTS Center of Maine, February 2024.
Bay State Banner
“City’s community garden program supports fresh food, environmental benefits”
Article by Avery Bleichfeld, January 2024.
Social Innovation Forum (SIF)
“SIF Announces 2024 Social Innovator Cohort”
Article by SIF Team, December 2023.
The Boston Globe
“Green spaces in Boston are blooming: Here’s what it means to Bostonians”
Article by Jaimie Seaton, October 2023.
Food Solutions New England (FSNE)
“A Just Transition in Agriculture and Soil Health for Regional Climate Resilience”
Issue Brief by Julie Snorek, Julie Davenson, Karen Nordstrom, Shane Rogers & Hope Kelley; August 2023.
WBUR, The Common
“From the newsroom: A 'food forest' in Mattapan is a space to harvest food and grow community”
Audio-postcard by Zeninjor Enwemeka & Katelyn Harrop; July 2023.
WGBH
“Offering free food and shade, ‘food forests’ are sprouting up in Boston”
Article and recording by Jessie Steinmetz, July 2023.
Natural Awakenings Magazine
“Boston’s Food Forest Expansion”
Article by Wendy Nadherny Fachon, July 2023.
The Forest Garden Podcast
“The Boston Food Forest Coalition with Nellie Ward and Alex Alvanos”
Podcast by Ben Bishop & Mike Amato, June 2023.
Christian Science Monitor
“A Boston ‘edible park’ plants caring and community”
Article by Kendra Nordin Beato, June 2023.
WBUR
“New 'food forest' in Mattapan a space to harvest food and grow community”
Article by Barbara Moran, May 2023.
The Boston Globe
“A ‘food forest’ rises on an empty Mattapan lot, and draws a visit from the mayor”
Article by Sean Cotter, May 2023.
Institute for Nonprofit Practice
By IFNP Staff, May 2023.
The Conversation
“Food forests are bringing shade and sustenance to US cities, one parcel of land at a time”
By Karen Spiller & Prakash Kashwan, April 2023.
Social Innovation Forum
“SIF Announces the 2023 Finalists for the Social Innovator Accelerator”
By The SIF Team, November 2022.
Great Transition Initiative
“Urban Grassroots: Conservation at the Crossroads”
By Orion Kriegmen, May 2022.
Boston.gov
“Food Forests: Learn More About Food Forests and Where to Find Them In Boston”
By The Mayor’s Office of Food Justice, March 2022.
Integrative & Complementary Therapies Vol. 28, No. 1
“Boston Food Forest Coalition: Uniting Nature and Neighborhoods”
By Orion Kriegman, February 2022.
Haverford College
“Orion Kriegman ‘96: Perfecting the Recipe for Urban Food Forests”
By Haverford College, January 2022.
Dorchester Reporter
“Saturday: Volunteers gather in Mattapan.
This week: A garden grows on Burmah Street”
By Daniel Sheehan, April 2021.
Edible Boston Magazine
By Michael Floreak, 2020.
Dorchester Reporter
“He’s on a Mission to Turn Boston into a Collection of Food Forests”
By Rowan Walrath, 2018.
Inhabitat Magazine
“Boston Food Forest Inspires Community through Ecological Design”
By Greg Beach, 2015.
The Christian Science Monitor
“A Visionary’s Quest: A City Filled With Gardens”
By David Hugh Smith, 2015.
On the Commons
By Orion Kriegman, 2014.