The Food Project

MISSION The Food Project's 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 leadership opportunities for youth, and inspires others to create change in their own communities. DESCRIPTION The Food Project is a place where people from all backgrounds join together to work for more livable communities. Founded in 1991, the Food Project brings together thousands of youth and adults to grow organic vegetables that are donated to homeless shelters and sold at urban farmers' markets and to families in suburban Boston. The Food Project is looking for volunteers in the fall, from mid-August to mid-November and then again in the spring, from April to late June. IMPACT The Food Project's youth workers and volunteers farm 21 acres of land in rural Lincoln. Additionally, they farm land in urban Boston that they transformed from vacant lots into lush, city farms.