"City Soil is a critical source of

materials for my urban agriculture

business. Losing them would be
a step in the wrong direction for
local food and urban farming. We
support their initiative and are
one of their biggest customers."
- Jessie Banhazl, CEO & Founder, Green City Growers
We support City Soil they are
locally owned and operated
and committed to sustainable
practices. The compost City
Soil provides is needed in the
community.
- Lisa A. Modecker, Officer, Roslindale Board of Trade
Bruce Fulford is a local
resident living in Roslindale,
and a small business man
doing good work. I would
like to think that we can
assist in his struggle.
- Anthony Paciulli, President/CEO at Meetinghouse Bank
Suffolk County Conservation District
(SCCD) has been talking with City Soil and
doing significant projects for ten or more
years. The Massachusetts Department of
Agricultural Resources (MDAR) project was
to be the most fruitful, especially because
it included substantial experiential
involvement of young local people.
- Matthew Goode, Suffolk County Conservation District
Massachusetts needs to grow infrastructure
to keep organic and recyclable materials out
of incinerators and landfill. City Soil is a
critical component in this infrastructure and it
is the exceptional composter - processing
yard and food waste from Boston and
completing the cycle by returning rich
compost to farms and gardens right here in
the city.
- Lor Holmes, Cooperative Energy, Recycling, and Organics (CERO)
Quality compost is the lifeblood of any
community garden. Every year each
garden needs a clean supply of compost
to replenish the soil for a new harvest.
City Soil provides this essential service,
and BNAN is concerned that DCRs
eviction decision will negatively affect the
availability of quality compost.
- Vidya Tikku, Interim Director, Boston Natural Areas Network
We support local small businesses,
such as City Soil, that are turning
food waste into healthy soil to grow
nutritious food, and thus are deeply
concerned about the anticipated
direct and indirect effects of DCRs
eviction decision.
- Veronica Eady, Vice President and Director, Healthy Communities
& Environmental Justice Program, Conservation Law Foundation
[I am] very concerned about the eviction.
I have supported the contributions [City
Soil has] made to support community
efforts in urban gardens. Please call a
community meeting after you stop the
eviction so residents can express the
concerns about the states action.
- Mel King, MIT, South End Technology Center
City Soil is a very positive force
with an intelligent, thoughtful and
insightful staff who bring health to
a city that produces a great deal of
waste that can be composted and
turned into healthy jobs and
healthy soil for all.
- Ferriss Buck Donham, Horticulture teacher, DOC's Boston Pre
Release Center
City Soil is a provider of high quality soil
and compost to urban farms and has
been expanding their capacity as the
demand for compost has grown.
Strengthening urban communities ability
to grow more of their own fresh fruits and
vegetables directly complements the
Governors and Mayors vision for
healthier residents in this city and state.
- Glynn Lloyd, Chief Operating Officer, City Fresh Foods Inc.
Higher Ground Farm believes in
supporting local businesses, and in
growing the urban agriculture economy
in Boston. For this reason, Higher
Ground buys its soil from City Soil and
uses City Soils composting services.
Higher Ground Farm values City Soil
and supports its growth in Boston.
- John Stoddard, Founding Farmer, Higher Ground Farm
The Food Project depends on City Soil
as a supplier of materials to its urban
farms and greenhouse A thriving local
composting operation is a crucial
element in any sustainable agricultural
system and will be central to the long-
term success of the emergent urban
agriculture sector in Boston.
- Sutton Kiplinger, Regional Director, The Food Project
Healthy and fertile soil and compost
are critical to the success of any
agricultural enterprise. Given
Bostons ongoing surge in urban
agriculture, we believe the expertise
and commitment demonstrated by
City Soil is a major asset that should
be preserved and protected.
- Shani Fletcher, Farm Manager, Victory Programs
ReVision Urban Farm
City Soil is an important part
of the local sustainable
agriculture scene in the city,
and I am concerned that this
move by DCR is jeopardizing
their survival.
- Patrick Keaney, Boston resident, community organizer
When Boston students and residents visit the
Ecovation Center they will be able to witness
first hand the wonders of composting, and
learn about the role that composting can play
in healing our "City Soil". Boston is moving
forward with exciting green initiatives,
including: Greenovate Boston and Article 89.
Please make sure that the Mattapan
Ecovation Center can be a central part of
Boston's exciting green future as well.
- George Zahka, Hyde Park resident
I've worked with numerous businesses and
non profits in the area to help make Boston
the greenest city in the country, and of course
push Massachusetts to be the greenest state.
It has recently come to my attention that one
of these amazing organizations may be
evicted from their space. I sincerely hope that
action will be taken to prevent DCR's unjust
eviction of City Soil from the Zoo parcel.
- Cameron Bruns, Boston Green Blog
I applaud City Soil for its operation of its
composting site at the Boston Nature Center
in Mattapan. They have partnered with the
Suffolk County Conservation District to
develop the Mattapan Ecovation Center
This is important for the environmental,
educational, and smart business development
of Boston, as well as a model for forward
thinking cities across the country.
- Ruth Feldman, Social Entrepreneurial Expertise & Development
City Soil is an essential resource for Boston. In
recent work that has involved creation of
schoolyard growing beds for food production [in
Boston Public Elementary Schools], we have relied
on City Soil to provide safe, tested, and high quality
materials. The convenient central location of City
Soil is important as it allows easy access for
schoolyard education projects, and as a resource
for teaching students about environmental
stewardship where its role can be clearly seen as
an integral member of the community.
- Ross Miller, Outdoor Classroom Consultant and Designer for the
Boston Schoolyard Initiative
Clark Cooper Community Garden (CCCG)
has worked cooperatively with City Soil for
many years. Bruce Fulford, the head of City
Soil, is a member of the local community
and understands local concerns - generous
with advice and with compost, conscientious
about hiring community members and
attentive to community concerns.
- Kathleen Schnaidt, CCCG Secretary
For many years our community garden received poor
quality compost and mulch, littered with bits of trash.
Since City Soil began to do the city's composting we
have had rich, dark, wonderful mulch delivered to our
garden each year.

City Soil is a locally-owned business with a deep
commitment to green practices. With their involvement I
believe the city can drastically increase food waste/
compost programs, enhance community gardens and
tree planting efforts, and improve the American Legion
Highway site.
- Christine Poff, Franklin Park Coalition
City Soil is a very positive force
with an intelligent, thoughtful and
insightful staff who bring health to
a city that produces a great deal of
waste that can be composted and
turned into healthy jobs and
healthy soil for all.
- Ferriss Buck Donham, Horticulture teacher, DOC's Boston Pre
Release Center
I believe it is crucial to support businesses
that work directly on behalf of a broad
community to provide high-quality soils,
education, and economic opportunities. City
Soil is a key business in Bostons resilient
development. They understand the linkages
between urban food security, food waste
reprocessing, energy security, healthy soils,
and local investment.
- Eliana Blaine, Save That Stuff, Inc.
The decision to evict City Soil
seems shortsighted indeed and
an example of state agencies
working at cross purposes. This
action should have had a
community process.
- Sherry Flashman, Consultant, Oasis at Ballou Urban
Agriculture project
How are concerns for the long term
well being of City Soils immediate
constituents being considered? What
about the concerns to cultivate habits,
practices, policies that support
sustainable eco systems in urban
environments? This seems like a highly
flawed decision on so many levels.
- Paula R. Elliott, Jamaica Plain resident