The Food Project

Since 1991, The Food Project has been providing the Boston area with innovative community and youth programming based upon the belief that everyone deserves healthy, delicious food. Following sustainable agricultural practices, TFP farms on over 40 acres of land in urban and suburban communities in eastern Massachusetts. The Food that TFP grows is intended to increase access to healthy food; it is sold at Farmer’s Markets that accept EBT, WIC and senior coupons, sold as CSA shares, and donated to local hunger relief organizations. TFP youth engagement is integral to all of our programs. From maintaining our farms and gardens, to boxing CSA shares and serving food at hunger relief organizations, to providing food systems education for children, teens and adults, TFP youth are both students of agricultural work and food justice, as well as local and national real food educators and advocates.

FoodCorps service members in Massachusetts play a key role in expanding and utilizing gardens at schools and afterschool programs as community centers for real food. By building and maintaining these gardens, as well as facilitating their use by teachers, students and families, service members play a key role in making sure that the gardens are seen and used an integral resource for both communities and schools. Members partner with community organizations to create access to and offer knowledge about real food in the communities that they serve. Members work to secure resources, create and foster community
relationships, and to provide a means in which to efficiently and effectively disperse resources to schools and other community centers.