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Speaker 1: Talks are still in the early stages, but Shawnie Fletcher,

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Speaker 1: with Boston's Office of Urban Agriculture says hopes are high

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Speaker 1: about a proposal to grow crops at the Boston Public

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Speaker 1: Health Commissions Mattapan Heights campus.

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Speaker 2: We are hoping to be able to establish about a

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Speaker 2: half acre farm that would primarily and maybe completely serve

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Speaker 2: people who are in need and who are experiencing food

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Speaker 2: in security.

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Speaker 1: Fletcher's office is still getting feedback from the community, but

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Speaker 1: this could happen by next year.

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Speaker 2: The next phase will be an archaeological review, and that

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Speaker 2: will not happen until the snow melts, and that will

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Speaker 2: take a little while, and then there will be a

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Speaker 2: design phase and bidding out construction.

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Speaker 1: According to a report by the Greater Boston Food Bank

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Speaker 1: and mass General Brigham, about two million Massachusetts adults face

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Speaker 1: food and security as of twenty twenty four. Jeremy Russ WBZ,

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Speaker 1: Boston's news radio