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Speaker 1: The idea would be to grow crops at the Boston

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Speaker 1: Public Health Commissions Madapan Heights campus as a means of

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Speaker 1: combating food insecurity. Shannie Fletcher is the director of the

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Speaker 1: city's Office of Urban Agriculture.

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Speaker 2: We are in early stages, but we're really optimistic that

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Speaker 2: this is going to be a project that will increase

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Speaker 2: food security in Mattapan and the surrounding neighborhoods.

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Speaker 1: Fletcher says a lot of the details, including funding, are

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Speaker 1: still up in the air.

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Speaker 2: This is about a half acre site, and that's about

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Speaker 2: just over twenty thousand square feet, and generally a farm

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Speaker 2: that's maybe around ten thousand square feet is probably something

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Speaker 2: like three hundred thousand dollars, maybe more, maybe closer to

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Speaker 2: five hundred thousand.

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Speaker 3: It really depends, and it's hard to give an exact number.

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Speaker 1: Fletcher says the proposal probably won't come to fruition until

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven at the earliest. Jeremy Russ WBZ, Boston's

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Speaker 1: news radio