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Spotlight on our Lynn Farmers Market
Posted by Jen James on September 28, 2007 at 10:00 am
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The Food Project’s North Shore site runs several farmers’ markets including one in downtown Lynn, MA. The Project for Public Spaces highlighted that market in an article about innovative practices and farmers’ markets that operate in low-income communities.

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Registration for the 2007 Winter CSA Now Open
Posted by the News Desk on September 26, 2007 at 11:41 am
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We are excited to announce the return of our popular winter CSA!

The winter CSA is an opportunity for you to receive healthy and delicious, locally grown produce from The Food Project twice during the holiday season. Historic Codman Barn in Lincoln will host our distribution of vegetables, herbs, fruit, and baked goods once during the week before Thanksgiving, and again during the week before Christmas.

Please see our Winter CSA page for more information and to sign up.

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Building Raised Beds Manual Now Available
Posted by Ramsey Tantawi on September 20, 2007 at 3:08 pm
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Our staff and interns wrote a manual on building raised beds (PDF) which is now available for download. At 5 pages including pictures of many of the steps it’s short and sweet, and concisely takes you step-by-step through building beds of your own. Also included is a list of all the materials you’ll need, as well as prices as of Summer 2007 for many of them. Enjoy!

You can also read more about the other urban agriculture initiatives here at The Food Project.

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Want to be a Grower’s Assistant at The Food Project?
Posted by Ramsey Tantawi on September 13, 2007 at 1:37 pm
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The posting for the Grower’s Assistant job for the 2008 farming season is now online!

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The Food Project North Shore Video
Posted by Ramsey Tantawi on September 11, 2007 at 11:12 am
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Philip Guy created this short video about our North Shore site, which includes comments from our staff, youth, and volunteers. Enjoy!

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Eat In, Act Out! 2007 – Lexington, MA
Posted by Monica Pless on September 4, 2007 at 4:06 pm
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By Elizabeth Miller

Lexington High School volunteers distributed peaches to Lexington folks during the Eat In, Act Out event on August 21st at the Lexington Farmers’ Market. The purpose of Eat In, Act Out is to inform citizens about the importance of eating locally grown food. The project is a youth initiative, meaning that the teenagers design and carry out the entire event.

This year’s event in Lexington, MA, led by Emily Miller, a Lexington High School Junior, included distributing local peaches in Lexington Center, giving out samples of peach crumb cake and a family pesto recipe along with blueberry lemonade. Other volunteers included Becky Pittore, Tasneem Islam, Coco Caporal, Victoria Goetz, Nick Page and Connor Leahy.

(Click on the thumbnails below for a larger image)

Eat In, Act Out 2007 in Lexington, MA
Left to right: Emily Miller, Chairman Eat In Act Out, Coco Caporal, Becky Pittore, Nick Page — Lexington High School Volunteers

Eat In, Act Out 2007 in Lexington, MA
Local peaches enjoyed by everyone.

Eat In, Act Out 2007 in Lexington, MA
Local food for local folks including the pharmacist at Theater Pharmacy.

Eat In, Act Out 2007 in Lexington, MA
Coco Caporal distributes peaches in Lexington Center on August 21st.

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BzzAgent Volunteers at The Food Project
Posted by Ramsey Tantawi on September 4, 2007 at 2:56 pm
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The fine folks at BzzAgent came to volunteer on our Lincoln farm a few days ago, and they have a great writeup of their day, complete with pictures. (More pictures over here.)

Thanks to BzzAgent for helping us out on the farm and then writing about the great experience they had!

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Media Roundup: Boston Globe, Reuters, Weekly Dig, and more
Posted by Ramsey Tantawi on September 4, 2007 at 11:18 am
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Lots of articles mentioning The Food Project have appeared in the past few weeks:

Teenagers dig in at farmers market – Boston Globe

Boston group turns to farms to fight fat problem – Reuters

Gardens in the hood – Grist

Tour De Farm – Weekly Dig

Farming the Concrete Jungle – In These Times

Growing our local food connections – Gloucester Daily Times

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