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Kennedy Community Garden at Kennedy Playground

A long-running community garden beside Kennedy Playground and the Neponset River in Mattapan. Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition currently partners with the garden, and MFFC youth help maintain the children’s garden through planting, plot cleanup, and family sensory-garden activities. PlotPal lists Kennedy Community Garden at Kennedy Playground as a community garden in Mattapan, Boston. The public listing address is Kennedy Playground, Edgewater Drive at Testa Street, Mattapan, MA 02126. The listed steward organization is Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition / Massachusetts DCR. Verified participation information currently includes visit, events programs, education, communal growing. MFFC currently lists Kennedy Community Garden as one of its two partner gardens. Its youth program says young people maintain the Kennedy Playground Children’s Garden by planting seedlings, cleaning the plot, and running sensory garden activities with families. Kennedy Community Garden sits within/along a public DCR playground and riverfront recreation site. Visitors may access the public park setting, but PlotPal does not infer permission to harvest, claim a plot, or enter managed growing beds. Edgewater Greenway construction is active around the playground, so temporary access conditions may change. Current verified participation or information links include MFFC garden partnerships, DCR Edgewater Greenway project. PlotPal last verified source information from Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition / Massachusetts DCR on 2026-10-02. This public place page keeps verified location and participation context connected to the garden itself, so people can discover the place first and follow its current source information when they are ready to visit or get involved.