Special Event in Boston:
Tuesday, October 30, 7pm
at the Lucy Parsons Center

Please join a panel of local folks involved in local and sustainable food for a discussion on the true costs of food and if/how everyone in Boston will be able to afford to eat locally and sustainably.

Jamey Lionette of Lionette’s Market, South End Boston.
A for-profit market focusing on local clean and sustainable food. Jamey is a contributor to Mani­festos on the Future of Food & Seed .

Adrieanna Bozeman & Kettia Louis , Real Food Interns, Food Project: Creating Personal and Social Change through Sustainable Agriculture.
The Food Project serves as a national model for engaging young people in local farming. With the help of hundreds of youth and thousands of volunteers, The Food Project grows nearly a quarter-million pounds of food each year on over 35 acres in rural and urban fields in Eastern Massachusetts, donating half to area shelters. Since 1991, The Food Project has offered more than 750 teenagers from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to work side-by-side on local farms with the goal of building a community of future leaders who care about healthy food, respect diversity and become true stewards of the land.

Matthew Kochka , Urban Farm Manager of ReVision Urban Farm in Dorchester , MA
ReVision Urban Farm is an organic micro-farm whose guiding vision is environmentally, eco­nomically, and socially sustainable urban agriculture. The farm grows a wide variety of food crops on three reclaimed urban lots totaling one-acre of growing space. The farm enhances the delivery of nutrition services throughout our community and increases local awareness of the social, environmental, and economic benefits of sustainable urban agriculture.

Jean Claude Bourrut of the Share Our Strength farm on Boston ’s Long Island
The Farm at Long Island Shelter is a 4-acre organic vegetable, flower and herb farm located in Boston Harbor produces nearly 30,000 pounds of high quality, first harvest produce for the over 850 homeless individuals we serve each day. The Northeast Organic Farming Association certifies the Farm organic and recognizes it as using environmentally sound and sustainable agricultural practices.