May 01, 2026 While much of the city hunkered down on a cold February day, the stewards of Hope Garden in Dorchester were out pruning apple trees at an edible park, trying to keep the trees from overshadowing the vegetable beds below. The garden on Geneva Avenue is one of about a dozen “food forests” in the city, run by the Boston Food Forest Coalition, a nonprofit that turns vacant lots into edible parks and gardens.