A Twist on Boston's Iconic ‘Green Monster’
Sourced from Roofing Contractor
Boston’s Fenway Park, home to Major League Baseball’s Red Sox, is America’s oldest active baseball stadium, which opened in 1912 and is known by the moniker “the Green Monster” courtesy of its towering, verdantly hued outfield wall.
Located in the city’s Kenmore Square area, the neighborhood is dominated by the ballpark and a handful of nightclubs and bars. Often referred to simply as Kenmore or Fenway, the stadium’s outfield wall has become so synonymous with the ballpark that it inspired paint manufacturer Benjamin Moore to offer a bespoke line of paints called “The Fenway Collection,” available for a time in select New England markets.
About a decade ago, the Red Sox organization decided to transform a section of Fenway’s rubberized roof into a working urban garden, transforming part of the 5,000-square-foot rubberized area into a working farm with the help of a company called Recover Green Roofs, based in nearby Somerville, Mass.
The building design firm specializes in planning, installing and maintaining green roofs, and capitalized on a then-fledgling movement of creating greenspaces in long-thought abandoned areas for agricultural production, transforming them into working farms within urban centers.
Called Fenway Farms, the rooftop farm opened in time for the start of the 2015 season and has been in operation since, with farmers starting prepping in March and operating as late as December, weather depending, according to Green City Growers, which manages the vegetative roof system.
From the Living Architecture Monitor
