Nestled away in an unassuming neighborhood abutting the Cambridge line is Belmont Acres Farm, the town’s last remaining connection to its history as a community of fruit farms and market gardens.
“We’re really, really fortunate,” said Henry Ogilby, whose family has owned the farm on Glenn Road for generations, dating as far back as the town’s incorporation in the late 1800s. “I don’t know another piece of property like this, this close to the city.”
According to Ogilby, many street and road names in town are a nod to farms of previous generations of Belmont residents, including Shaw Road, Hittinger Road, and Bright Road, a farm that previously operated next door to the Ogilby family farm…