The Food Project

About The Food Project

Their mission is to create a thoughtful and productive community of youth and adults from diverse backgrounds who work together to build a sustainable food system. Their community produces healthy food for residents of the city and suburbs, provides youth leadership opportunities, and inspires and supports others to create change in their own communities.

Each year, they work with over 120 teens and thousands of volunteers to farm on 70 acres in Lincoln, Beverly, Boston, and in Lynn, Mass. They grow over a quarter-million pounds of food without chemical fertilizers or pesticides and donate thousands of pounds of produce to local hunger relief organizations. They sell the remainder of the produce through community supported agriculture (CSA) farm shares and farmers’ markets. Locally, they promote access to fresh, affordable produce by building raised-bed gardens for residents and organizations, offering garden-based educational programming, and providing opportunities for people to use SNAP/EBT benefits to purchase fresh food.

The Food Project also works as a resource center for organizations and individuals worldwide. They provide unique capacity building for organizations and educators who learn from The Food Project’s expertise through materials, youth training, and professional development opportunities. Even projects completely unrelated to farming can draw on our methods for building inspired, diverse, and productive youth communities.