FARMER TRAINING

Seed Crew provides the first opportunity for involvement with The Food Project. Each summer, we hire around 72 high school students between the ages of 14 and 17 from diverse cultural, racial, economic, and geographic backgrounds to work on our urban and suburban farms in Beverly, Boston, Lincoln, Lynn, and Wenham, Massachusetts.

During this six-and-a-half-week summer job (July through mid-August), youth crews work with staff to grow vegetables and distribute thousands of pounds of produce while developing important leadership, teamwork, diversity, and civic participation skills.

After working on our farms each morning, Seed Crew spends many afternoons participating in interactive workshops to learn about sustainable agriculture, food access, social justice, and more. Seed Crew members see the impact of the produce they grow through preparing and serving this produce at hunger relief organizations, and distributing it to SNAP/HIP accessible farmers’ markets. Youth in Seed Crew are held to high standards of performance and behavior and earn a bi-weekly stipend of $275 for their work.

For more information about Seed Crew, please contact seedcrew@thefoodproject.org