Resources
Please visit the Gardening the Community (GTC) Farmstore and learn how to get free food using your SNAP/HIP.
Por favor, visite la tienda agrícola de Gardening the Community (GTC) y aprenda cómo obtener alimentos gratis utilizando sus beneficios de SNAP/HIP.
Massachusetts Healthy Incentives Program (HIP)
Looking to make your food budget go further while buying fresh, local produce? The Massachusetts Healthy Incentives Program (HIP) helps SNAP/EBT participants earn money back when they buy fruits and vegetables from participating farmers’ markets, farm stands, mobile markets, and CSAs.
¿Quiere hacer que su presupuesto para alimentos rinda más mientras compra productos locales frescos? El Programa de Incentivos Saludables de Massachusetts (HIP) ayuda a los participantes de SNAP/EBT a recuperar dinero cuando compran frutas y verduras en mercados de agricultores, puestos agrícolas, mercados móviles y CSA participantes.
Resources for Historically Underserved Farmers and Producers
Learn more about supports for farmers facing historic barriers. This resource page from the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) connects Historically Underserved Farmers and Producers with information, programs, and opportunities to increase access to farmland, capital, marketing, grants, and other essential resources within the Massachusetts food system.
Obtenga más información sobre el apoyo a los agricultores que enfrentan barreras históricas. Esta página de recursos del Departamento de Recursos Agrícolas de Massachusetts (MDAR) conecta a agricultores y productores históricamente desatendidos con información, programas y oportunidades para aumentar el acceso a tierras agrícolas, capital, marketing, subvenciones y otros recursos esenciales dentro del sistema alimentario de Massachusetts.
Massachusetts SNAP Restaurant Meals Program (RMP)
The Massachusetts SNAP Restaurant Meals Program (RMP) is designed to improve food accessibility for vulnerable populations who may face barriers to storing or preparing meals by allowing eligible SNAP recipients to use EBT cards at authorized restaurants. For more information, visit the link below.
El Programa de Comidas en Restaurantes (RMP) SNAP de Massachusetts está diseñado para mejorar la accesibilidad a los alimentos para las poblaciones vulnerables que pueden enfrentar barreras para almacenar o preparar comidas al permitir que los beneficiarios elegibles de SNAP usen tarjetas EBT en restaurantes autorizados. Para obtener más información, visite el siguiente enlace.
Ancestors, Elders & Mentors
"In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed. This means that we are going to have to learn to think in radical terms.
I use the term radical in its original meaning, getting down to and understanding the root cause. It means facing a system that does not lend itself to your needs and devising means by which you change that system."
- Ella Baker, 1969
(Source: Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker & The Black Freedom Movement).
“If we want to talk about uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system we have to look at how we got the food system that we have today.” – Leah Penniman
"We Don't Farm Because it is Trendy; we Farm as Resistance, for Healing and Sovereignty"
Article by Ashley Gripper, Environmental Health News, May 27, 2020
"For more than 150 years, from the rural South to northern cities, Black people have used farming to build self-determined communities and resist oppressive structures that tear them down." Click the link below to read more on the history of urban growing and Black communities, and how "growing food is a tool for dismantling systemic oppression."
