On Season 3, episode 2 of the Build Better podcast, Anastasia welcomes Christopher Grallert, president of Green City Growers, a company whose mission is to provide inspiring shared experiences for employees, customers, and community members that educate and enable people to grow food sustainably.

Grallert shares more about how the team at Green City Growers is furthering their goal of creating increased connection with onsite gardens, and educating the next generation on how to create and maintain local food systems in Boston and beyond.

Chris Grallert joined Green City Growers in 2015 as a Partner, Advisor, and Managing Director. He is now the company’s President. With over thirty years of professional experience in organic and sustainable agriculture, Chris is committed to supporting regenerative agricultural models that foster responsible land and soil stewardship. Outside of his role at GCG, Chris is passionately involved with his own farm and home in Millis which includes an extensive library of literature, history and science and artifacts related to all things agriculture. Chris enjoys working alongside 15 year old nephew in his organic vegetable farm and helping to revive the lost art of mechanical weed control by restoring and repurposing cultivating farm machinery. Chris has degrees from the Stockbridge School of Agriculture (Fruit & Vegetable Production) and the University of Maine (Sustainable Agriculture).