Boston’s largest farm plans a new farmstand and greenhouse

Allandale Farm, on the Jamaica Plain/Brookline line, this week filed plans to replace its current cramped farmstand with a larger “market barn” open year round and its current small retail greenhouses with one larger greenhouse.

Plans submitted to the Boston Planning Board also call for moving the current chicken coop 10 feet further away from the farmstand parking lot, which will still leave plenty of room for Boston’s only cattle herd – Scottish Highland steers Curtis and Willard – to graze and lounge along the newly speed-bumped Allandale Street.

The proposal, filed with the Boston Planning Department, also calls for adding three new parking spaces to a reconfigured parking lot – along with “landscape islands with canopy trees,” EV chargers and racks for eight bicycles…

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