Food insecurity has reached historic levels in Massachusetts. One local effort is trying to address the lack of awareness about hunger, while also providing food:
Students from South High School in Worcester plant eggplant seedlings at the Community Harvest Project in Grafton. , crouched in a field at a North Grafton farm, where rows and rows of dirt were covered in black plastic. Sophomore Nadia Frempong and some other kids are using poles to make holes in the plastic covering the ground.Other students, like sophomore Anya Geist, knelt in the dirt, placing delicate eggplant starters in the holes.on the nonprofit's 15-acre farm.
"I think there's something definitely about teamwork that we learn here," said Geist. "It's just really great to be out helping the community and actually working with your hands and doing stuff that you know is going to benefit other people." It's not just kids dealing with hunger. One in three adults in Massachusetts depended on food assistance in 2021, according to a recent. Food insecurity rates cited in the report were highest among communities of color and people who identify as LGBTQ.
While volunteers plant and harvest vegetables and blueberries, McAuliffe told them about what it takes to mitigate hunger on a local level. He explained that existing food assistance programs aren’t enough for many struggling families, and that Black, Latino and low-income families are disproportionately represented among the hungry.
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