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Emily Salomon, a Food Project alumna, wrote the following article on farmer’s markets in the state of New Jersey. She wrote on behalf of the International City/County Management Association, where she works, and the article was published in New Jersey Municipalities Magazine.
The full article, with graphics, citations, and footnotes, can be downloaded from here.
Though the weather is still wintry outside, some jurisdictions in the Garden State are gearing up for the growing season and beginning to plan for their community farmers’ markets. During this time of year, market managers throughout the state meet with farmers to secure vendors, build financial support and apply for grants, and put together educational programs. It can also be an excellent time for local governments to develop a strategy for supporting farmers’ markets in their community. Click here for the rest of this entry…
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H. Patricia Hynes, Professor of Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health, interviewed our very own Danielle Andrews (our Urban Grower) for the spring edition of the Women Food and Agriculture Newsletter.
Each spring and summer we take Boston University public health students on an environmental justice field trip to The Food Project in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. The Food Project, a 14 year-old organization, is a prototype of urban environmental health, bringing urban and suburban youth together to do sustainable agriculture on vacant urban land, sell their produce at their nearby farmers’ market, and deliver it to local food pantries. Their raised growing beds and intensively planted, lush organic crops have erased the blight of failed “urban renewal” and slum clearance programs; and they are restoring healthy food systems to low-income inner city neighborhoods that supermarkets abandoned to fast food chains and liquor stores. In their educational programs, The Food Project youth discuss the loss of small farms and growth of agribusiness, farm policy, poor nutrition among youth and trends in obesity, as well as social and personal change to eliminate racism and sexism. What follows is an interview with Danielle Andrews, the Urban Grower for The Food Project’s farm in Boston. Click here for the rest of this entry…
