- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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11 people are interested
Grow Food for Hunger Relief in Lynn!
ORGANIZATION: The Food Project
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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11 people are interested
Help those who lack access to fresh, affordable, high-quality food in your community, learn more about growing food sustainably, and spend time outside on a farm with The Food Project's volunteer program.
Volunteers engage in a variety of farm tasks including planting, weeding, harvesting, washing vegetables, and more.
The Food Project's Lynn farm hosts volunteers on Tuesdays and Thursdays mornings from April 30th through June 20th.
Groups wanted -- volunteering at The Food Project offers a positive and energizing service-learning opportunity for groups. Volunteers must be 18 or older and the farm can accommodate up to 25 individuals in a group.
Contact the Volunteer Coordinator, at participate@thefoodproject.org, to learn more and sign up!
More opportunities with The Food Project
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About The Food Project
Location:
10 Lewis St, Lincoln, MA 01773, US
Mission Statement
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. Our community produces healthy food for residents of the city and suburbs, provides youth leadership opportunities, and inspires and supports others to create change in their own communities.
Description
The Food Project envisions a world where youth are active leaders, diverse communities feel connected to the land and each other, and everyone has access to fresh, local, healthy, affordable food.
The Food Project brings together youth and adults from diverse backgrounds to learn through and across their differences to build capacity as powerful agents of change. Bridging the demographic groups of race, class, and geography that so often divide us, high school-aged youth at The Food Project come together with shared purpose to gain leadership skills, practice communicating across difference, and grow healthy food for those in need.
We welcome more than 120 teenagers from across eastern Massachusetts on our 70 acres of urban and suburban farmland in a three-tiered, year-round, youth leadership development program. Our youth power our programs by building and managing growing spaces for residents in food-insecure neighborhoods and growing more than 200,000 pounds of food annually for donation to hunger relief and to supply our SNAP-accessible farmers markets. We lead food system change, building locally owned supply chains for healthy food in the under-resourced communities of the Dudley neighborhood of Boston and the City of Lynn.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
1 Collins Street TerraceLynn, MA 01902
DATE POSTED
January 30, 2019
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18
- 3 hours
- Volunteers must wear closed-toe shoes, bring a water bottle, and wear clothing appropriate for farm work and the weather.