urban farming

Northeastern student Yasser Aponte works at The Food Project to help deliver fresh food to local communities in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

In the middle of Boston, he’s growing food for good

Every morning during the week, Northeastern student Yasser Aponte navigates the tight, densely-packed streets of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood until the streets suddenly, almost without warning, give way to a lush, two-acre farm. It’s there that Aponte (literally) rolls up his sleeves, and gets to work weeding, watering, harvesting, and planting food for his community.

by Molly Callahan June 24, 2020

Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Urban farming right in your backyard. No, really.

A lot of local businesses will say their products are made “right in your own backyard!” as a euphemism for the relative proximity. For Urban Harvest, the urban farming startup founded by a Northeastern student, the business is literally right in your backyard.

by Molly Callahan September 7, 2018

How to go from city living to urban farming in six months

Do you know where your leafy greens come from? If you’re dining at a restaurant in Boston, there’s a good chance the salad greens you’re eating have been grown by two Northeastern graduates inside a small apartment in Boston’s South End neighborhood.

by Molly Callahan July 19, 2018

10/03/17 - BOSTON, MA. - Ted Moss, associate teaching professor of English, runs, Meadow Farm, as a hobby, at his home in Hingham, MA. Moss has a fruit and veggie orchard, and many animals - including chickens, geese, ducks, beehives, cat, and dogs. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Beyond campus, professor cares for his animals and organic orchard

Ted Moss, associate teaching professor of English, and his husband, Nick Macke, own a hobby farm in Hingham, Massachusetts, where they care for an organic orchard and a crew of animals including ducks, chickens, goats, geese, bunnies, and even bees. “They’re our extended family,” Moss says.

by Greg St. Martin November 1, 2017

In the middle of Boston, he’s growing food for good

Urban farming right in your backyard. No, really.

How to go from city living to urban farming in six months

Beyond campus, professor cares for his animals and organic orchard

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