There’s an urban farm in Boston growing 6,000 pounds of produce a year. It happens to be located on the roof of Fenway Park

Operated by Green City Growers, Fenway Farms is a roughly 5,000-square-foot rooftop garden area tucked up behind the third baseline at legendary Fenway Park, home to the Boston Red Sox.Editor's note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions.Though home to the Boston Red Sox, Fenway Park is known for being green.

With 2,400 total square feet of growing space, the beds can cultivate anything from A to Z – “asparagus to zucchini,” says Chris Grallert, president of Green City Growers, and a local farmer who grew up going to Red Sox games as a kid. As a seasonal garden, farmers start prepping at Fenway in March and can go as long as December, depending on the weather.

There are three main growing seasons , and offerings on the menu for the ballpark restaurants, luxury boxes and concession stands adapt as the year goes on.

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