Edible Boston
Spyce Boys
In the summer of 2018, a fast-casual restaurant called Spyce opened in Boston’s Downtown Crossing. Its unique selling point: the food was made by robots. The futuristic front-end, whose workings are visible through a glass façade, was a clear draw. It provided the wow factor....
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The Hospital Rooftop Farm
One evening in a summer of record high temperatures in 2019, I went on a free public tour of a large rooftop farm in the heart of our fair city. To reach this destination, I took the orange freight elevator three stories up at the...
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Growing Mushrooms in New England
“The lion’s mane does not like to be dripped on,” Julia Coffey informs me, “so it sits on the top shelf of this greenhouse.” The founder of Mycoterra Farm, a leading small-scale, year-round mushroom farm in Massachusetts, knows exactly what makes her edible fungi tick....
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