A climate-friendly greenhouse goes up in East Boston

"It's a very exciting day!" said Thiruvengadam, who does actually speak in exclamation points. "It'll be a space for people to come together, have some food that's harvested right there!"

But the farm is in East Boston, and that morning he had a very Boston problem — two illegally-parked cars were blocking the delivery route. Thiruvengadam and his colleagues knocked on doors up and down the street, trying to find the owners instead of towing the cars.

"This has nothing to do with the greenhouse!" he laughed. Then, he reconsidered: "It's an urban farm, it's an urban greenhouse, and this is an urban problem."

Eastie Farm, which sprouted up in 2015, is made up of seven small plots of land sandwiched between buildings and behind billboards around East Boston. The neighborhood has the highest percentage of immigrants in Boston and a median household income below the rest of the city. It's also the Boston neighborhood with the farthest average distance to a grocery store.

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Source: WBUR