![John Lee is general manager of Allandale Farm in Brookline. “I want people to wonder what [the farm] is doing next. I’m looking for new crops, new varieties of crops,’’ he says.](http://cache.boston.com/resize/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2009/07/27/1248740848_5766/539w.jpg "John Lee is general manager of Allandale Farm in Brookline. “I want people to wonder what [the farm] is doing next. I’m looking for new crops, new varieties of crops,’’ he says.")
John Lee is general manager of Allandale Farm in Brookline. “I want people to wonder what [the farm] is doing next. I’m looking for new crops, new varieties of crops,’’ he says.
(Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff)
G FORCE | JOHN LEE
Farm fresh
John Lee is general manager of Allandale Farm in Brookline. “I want people to wonder what [the farm] is doing next. I’m looking for new crops, new varieties of crops,’’ he says.
(Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff)
For 25 years, John Lee has been the gregarious, customer-oriented general manager of Allandale Farm, which straddles 130 acres in Boston and Brookline (30 acres are cultivated). Lee has eight field workers; eight more work the farmstand. Before the cold rainy spring, Lee decided to put in raised beds. “It turns out to be a fortuitous decision,’’ he says. “We ... (Full article: 621 words)
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