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We still have spaces available for most of our summer CSA shares, including our Farm Shares and Box Shares. Click on the links for info and applications.
Note that our Cambridge box share pickup location is full, but we still have spaces available for our Arlington and Jamaica Plain pickups.
Not even sure what a CSA is? Check out our Community Supported Agriculture page for more information. For an idea of what owning a CSA share is all about, you can read past issues of our CSA Newsletters. Issued once a week during the growing season, they offer cooking tips, recipes, and news from the farm.
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From January 26-27, the Urban Education and Outreach interns were at a Holiday Inn outside Syracuse NY, exploring the joys of NOFA. In addition to presenting the B.L.A.S.T Healthy Food Choices workshop to two groups, one ages 3-12 and another for teenagers, each Food Project youth attended an afternoon and morning workshop. Topics ranged from converting a Vermont farm to run entirely on vegetable oil, to raising organic beef cattle in upstate New York.
We also browsed the numerous stalls displaying equal exchange chocolate, homemade soap, organic potatoes and more. We formed new connections with other organic farming initiatives, and had the opportunity for great conversations at two complimentary meals during the day. Overall it was a very inspiring atmosphere, as everyone there shared a common hope for the future improvement of this country through food and farming. The interns slept well on the drive home, with pleasant thoughts of organic matter, flannel shirts, and homegrown meat filling their dreams.
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The Food Project is now beginning our preliminary construction on the new Urban Learning Farm located at 31 Burrell Street near the Shirley Eustis house. Thanks to generous grants from The SCI Dorchester Youth Council, The Boston Public Health Commission, and the Herman and Frieda L. Miller Foundation, progress is underway to get the Learning Farm up and running this spring. Recently drawn up plans for the new garden show several rows of raised beds, a bird bath and herb plot, a pleasant picnic area, and some new apple trees and berry bushes lining the perimeter.
The Food Project’s Urban Education and outreach interns have already constructed nearly 50 raised bed frames this winter for the learning farm and neighboring local gardeners. With this new Urban Learning Farm and the Build-a-Garden program, that provides raised beds for local gardeners with a high lead content in their soil, we aim to educate local gardeners about urban growing, and recruit new gardeners in the community by teaching healthy gardening practices. Over the summer we will be running workshops on the land, and are welcoming youth groups to come plant and harvest with us. In the fall, Mason and Emerson Elementary Schools are going to be helping us work the land.
If you are a leader of a youth group and are interested in getting involved, please feel free to contact Monica Pless at 617-442-1322 x21.
