Eating and the Environment
Writes Professor Jennifer Cole:
We went to The Food Project in West Roxbury. “We” in the first photo means Daniel Castillo (with the big smile) and David Jordan and Vanessa Olivera. “We” means Emily Alcott and Czarina Shart and Emma Jackson and Daniel Castillo in the second. “We” also means Food Project High School Staff Manager David Jordan in the third.
The Food Project is a food cooperative seeking to grow a thoughtful and productive community of youth and adults from diverse backgrounds who together work to build a sustainable food system. They produce healthy food for residents of the city and suburbs and provide youth leadership opportunities. Each season, they grow nearly a quarter-million pounds of food without chemical pesticides, donating half to local shelters. They sell the remainder of their produce through Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) crop shares and farmers’ markets. They also partner with urban gardeners to help them remediate their lead-contaminated soil and grow healthier food.