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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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As part of Boston University's First Year Student Outreach Project (FYSOP), a group of freshmen students visited the Boston Medical Center's rooftop farm this summer to help with the clearing and planting of crops. PHOTO COURTESY OF CATRIN TRUDGILL

FYSOP partners with BMC rooftop farm, educates community about sustainable food cultivation

Minali Prasad September 6, 2018

At ground level, the Boston Medical Center appears as a vast, brick building, yet atop the roof sits rows of colorful vegetables and leafy greens. Red tomatoes on vines, green peppers, cucumbers and...

Children in the Boston Medical Center’s Summer Culinary Camp harvest produce on the BMC's green roof. PHOTO COURTESY MATT MORRIS/ BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER

Boston Medical Center winds down inaugural rooftop farm season

Ellisa Riddell October 26, 2017

The Boston Medical Center, Boston University’s affiliated teaching hospital, is winding down its first growing season on the center’s new rooftop farm with thousands of pounds of fresh, farmed...

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