The Edgewater Food Forest in Mattapan is a formerly vacant lot now filled with fruit trees and berry bushes. Anyone in the community can harvest food for free.
There’s a park in Mattapan, and it’s … edible." — a formerly vacant lot now filled with fruit trees, berry bushes and mushrooms. Unlike community gardens, food forests mimic natural ecosystems, with a focus on native food-bearing plants that provide habitat for insects and birds. Anyone in the community could harvest food for free.
"This had just been an empty lot that was overgrown for many, many decades," said Vivien Morris, chair of theShe said the neighborhood wanted a park and gathering space,"but we wanted it to be food-centered." The largest trees in the park grow black walnuts. The nuts are nutritious but enclosed in a green fruit that's difficult to remove. So the park includes a walnut-cracking shed, and Morris said they'll plan events around the harvest."You have fig trees, apricots, plums, strawberries, blackberries, golden berries, everything you can think of," said Fatima Ali-Salaam, one of the neighborhood stewards who cares for the park."If you can pick it, you can eat it.
Kriegman said the soil is treated through"sheet mulching" which restores the top layer of soil and adds organic matter.Then they plant native perennials that sequester lead in their woody stems and stalks, keeping it out of the fruit.Orion Kriegman at the opening of the Edgewater Food Forest in May, 2023.
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