April 11, 2008

Dine and Dash: Flour and the Community Garden

Sunday’s Dine and Dash begins at one of my regular stops: Flour. It’s sometimes convenient, usually quick, and always delicious. Their sticky buns beckon me from all the way across the South End. This sad love affair blessed me with an unintended benefit; I have one more reason to wander through my neighborhood.

As we stroll the city Sunday, our route takes us through Columbia Square (aka Blackstone Square and Franklin Square) and past the beautiful Rutland-Washington Community Garden. The South End Lower Roxbury Open Space Land Trust operates fifteen similar gardens throughout the South End and Roxbury. Members of the trust pay a fee for the right to tend a garden plot as they wish, growing whatever they want, provided they don’t sell the fruits of their labor.

Flour sits directly across the street from the community garden. A leisurely walk through the gardens would be nice, but I don’t know if the grounds are open to non-members. Even if we can’t get in, we can enjoy the view through the wrought-iron fence before beginning the dash.

121 West Concord Street, #2
Beds: 2/Baths: 3.5
SQ.FT.: 1843
$1,195,000
Open House: Sunday, April 13 11:30 to 1:00

112 West Concord Street, #3
Beds: 2/Baths: 3
SQ.FT.: 2046
$1,350,000
Open House: Sunday, April 13 12:45 to 2:30

27 Rutland Street, #2
Beds: 3/Baths: 3.5
SQ.FT.: 1782
$1,230,000
Open House: Sunday, April 13 12:30 to 2:30

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