Hope Garden was once a vacant lot in the Dorchester area. Through partnership and collaboration between Boston Food Forest Coalition, Farmers Collaborative, Speak for the Trees, and several other organizations, this space was transformed into a community-run garden and food forest open to the public.

This green space initiative aims to utilize the aquaponic system and vertical gardens to provide fresh produce for the community and help increase diet quality for the homeless and food insecure.

The site has an urban greenhouse, grow beds, and rain garden. The greenhouse is 10 feet tall, providing plenty of space for vertical growing. The aquaponics system allows water to continually circulate through the system, and the fish (housed in the aquaponics system) eat and produce waste to elicit bacteria growth, acting as a natural fertilizer for plants to absorb.