Tag Archives: Environment

City Growers Urban Farming

Recently, I spent time with the Bobby and Nataka Walker, the farmers at City Growers, a unique small business that works with community partners to secure vacant land in Boston and transform it into productive farmland.  According to City Growers, the City of Boston has hundreds of acres of vacant land, creating a checkerboard of [...]

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Leise’s Top 5 Environmental Organizations

In honor of Earth Day 2011, I am going to share with you my Top 5 Favorite Environmental Organizations (in no particular order).  Please take some time to learn about these great groups and their amazing work.  There is LOTS we can all do to help protect the Earth and make it safer and healthier [...]

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