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From YouTube: Growing in Boston
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Mayor Wu joined GrowBoston director Shani Fletcher at Franklin Fields Community Center to promote Boston's food sovereignty work.
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So
I
just
wanted
to
say
hello.
Thank
you
so
much
to
come
for
coming
to
our
growing
and
Boston
event
to
celebrate
all
the
exciting
things
happening
in
urban
Agriculture
and
food
Security
in
Boston
and
mayor
Wu
is
here
is
going
to
say
a
few
words,
so
I
just
wanted
to
introduce
her
and
then
we'll
I'll
have
some
announcements
as
well.
So
it's
exciting!
Thank
you.
So
much.
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C
B
B
I
always
get
to
come
here
and
just
announce
and
and
be
in
the
the
moment
of
so
much
happiness
that
a
big
thing
is
going
to
happen.
So
much
work
from
our
city
teams
goes
into
that
a
step
by
step
by
step
to
get
us
here.
So
I
just
want
to
make
sure
that
we
publicly
think
and
acknowledge
some
of
just
some
of
the
folks
who
have
been
really
instrumental
in
that,
of
course,
Johnny
Fletcher,
our
director
of
growbot.
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B
Than
270
raised
garden
beds
across
the
city,
we
have
had
nearly
600
thousand
dollars
in
funding
awarded
through
Grassroots
programming
through
the
Grassroots
program
to
jump
start,
the
development
and
renovation
of
urban
Gardens
and
farms
and
other
spaces,
and
a
couple
of
sources
came
together
here
to
make
sure
that
this
new
community
garden
will
be
built
with
more
than
350
thousand
dollars
in
city
funding.
Some
from
the
community
preservation
act
some
from
our
food
sources,
and
all
of
that
is
coordinated
in
part
by
our
amazing
chief
of
housing,
Sheila
Dillon
who's.
Here.
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Making
sure
that
we
can
maintain,
preserve
and
grow
affordable
housing
as
well.
So
let
me
see
if
there's
any
other
points.
I
particularly
wanted
to
make.
So
one
other
point
that
we're
going
to
do
is
just
to
be
strategic
in
how
we
are
thinking
about
equity
in
the
funding
that's
given
out,
and
so
we
want
to
be
completely
responsive.
We
know
there
are
parts
of
the
city
where
there's
been
the
need
and
and
we're
following
through
and
and
giving
out
those
grants.
B
We
also
want
to
do
an
audit
and
Analysis,
particularly
focusing
on
Dorchester
Mattapan
Roxbury
and
East
Boston,
to
think
about
food
production,
and
where
is
it
already
happening?
That
is
official?
Where
is
it
happening?
That
is
just
bubbling
up
through
the
Grassroots
that
we
can
help
support
and
and
grow
as
well?
All
of
this
work
is
being
done
in
close
collaboration
with
grow
Boston's
new
advisory
boards,
some
of
whom
are
here.
B
B
I
remember
when
I
first
interned
for
mayor
manino
a
dozen
plus
years
ago,
one
of
the
pieces
that
we
were
looking
at,
that
early
back
in
2009
or
something
like
that
was
to
analyze
where
our
zoning
code
allowed
for
urban
Agriculture
and
where
it
didn't
the
parcels
of
land
where
this
could
and
couldn't
happen.
And
so
in
some
it.
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Come
full
circle,
but
now
we're
just
going
to
keep
accelerating
our
efforts
to
make
sure
the
Next
Generation
and
the
one
after
that
just
takes
us
for
granted,
looks
around
the
city,
sees
beautiful
homes,
beautiful
parks
and
open
spaces
and
communities
in
the
dirt,
nourishing
the
soil
and
making
sure
that
we
can
have
the
the
fruits
of
our
labor
come
together
as
a
community.
So
thank
you
so
much
for
all
your
leadership.
Everyone
I'll
hand
it
back.
A
Thank
you
so
much
mayor,
Wu
I,
wanted
to
just
acknowledge
a
few
more
folks,
so
The
Advisory
board
members
we
have
here
are
Pablo
katala
Barbara
connect,
Vivian,
Morris
and
vidyatiku.
Thank
you.
So
much
I'm
so
excited
to
have
you
the
Grassroots
program,
which
has
been
a
part
of
the
mayor's
office
of
housing
for
a
very
long
time
about
30
years
and
is
now
part
of
the
our
new
office
for
Boston.
A
Has
we
issued
about
six
hundred
thousand
dollars
in
Awards
this
summer,
and
so
we
wanted
to
name
those
folks
I
think
several
of
them
are
here:
Charlestown
Sprouts
women's
lunch
place.
Please
raise
your
hands
when
I
say
your
organization:
podman
Academy,
jpndc,
Boston,
green
Academy,
Boston,
Food,
Forest,
Coalition,
Boston,
Farms,
Community,
Land,
Trust,
Boston,
Medical,
Center
and
Whittier
Street,
Health
Center.
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And
we'll
be
doing
in
the
next
few
years,
we'll
be
building
a
thousand
raised
beds
over
the
next
three
years
in
partnership
with
the
office
of
food
Justice,
and
they
really
piloted
the
first
round
of
that
last
year,
which
was
270
raised
beds
and
the
grantees
who
built
those
raised
beds
are
also
here
today.
So
that
includes
Roundtable
ink,
Roots,
berries
and
goodies.
Please
again
raise
your
hands,
make
yourselves
no
come.
B
A
Haley
house,
the
food
project
and
East
Farm,
so
thank
you
so
much
and
I
wanted
to.
Let
folks
know
also
what
resources
we
have
today.
So
after
we're
done
with
the
remarks
we
of
the
Northeast
organic
farming,
Association
Massachusetts
chapter
we'll
be
doing
two
workshops
here:
sister
Dora
and
sister
Anna
will
be
doing
two
workshops.
A
Yes,
soil
fertility,
so
everyone
who
will
be
getting
you
know
be
growing
next
season,
we'll
get
to
learn
some
things
and
the
zero
waste
program
and
the
opposite
with
Justice
both
have
resources
at
the
back
right
back
there.
Yes,
so
we
wanted
to
bring
some
of
those
all
of
our
food
security
resources
here
to
Franklin
Field
and
help
help
make
sure
people
know
what's
available.
We
also
have
a
robuston
table
here
with
some
gardening
tip
sheets
and
a
sign
up
sheet.