Brett Otis, Project Lead

Sponsoring this event through a USDA grant.

North Shore Farm and Food Coalition (NSFFC) facilitates collaboration among food, farming, educational, and municipal partners to help identify and develop regional opportunities and actions for:

* Expanded food production capacity

* Increased local food security

* Reduced carbon emissions

Jennifer Hashley, Director

New Entry’s mission is to train and support new farmers, encourage resilient farming practices, facilitate access to local food and farm products, and build strong support networks for diverse agricultural communities.

Get Involved, Support Local Food and Farming!

Purchase Fresh, Locally Grown Produce – Direct from the Farm!

- Traditional CSA Produce Box & CSA Your Way

- Mobile Market

Learn More about Growing Food – Register for a Workshop or Course!

- Crop Production Course

- Practicum in Sustainable Agriculture

- Online self-paced courses

Volunteer! Roll up your sleeves and help us grow!

Know a student looking for meaningful academic engagement or community service hours? Check out our student internship opportunities!

Want to support local farmers in other ways

Siedric White & Anna Pierce-Slive

Revival Road Farm is a diversified, regenerative, reparative agricultural enterprise that strives to re-awaken soil health, connection of people with earth and revive joy and celebration on the land. Sign up on our website for our newsletter and follow us on Instagram @revival_road_farm to receive updates about our CSA and events!

Madison Tetens, Terracorps Service Member 2024-2025

The Salem Pantry is transforming the North Shore’s food system by providing fresh, free, and healthy food through mobile pantries, home delivery, The Market, and a dynamic food distribution hub. By combining direct service with collaborative partnerships, The Salem Pantry ensures convenient and equitable access to nutritious food throughout the region. 

Volunteers are always needed.

https://thesalempantry.org/new-volunteer-sign-up/

Art Ruiz, Volunteer Coordinator artruiz@thesalempantry.org

CJ Hughes, Farm Manager

A non-profit, 2-acre regenerative farm located in Peabody.

Its mission is to provide healthy food for families facing food scarcity. Newhall Fields actively engages the community through seasonal volunteer sessions and workshops that promote physical wellness and strengthen connections among neighbors. With the support of over 300 committed volunteers in 2024, Newhall Fields grew nearly 12,000 pounds of food, with plans to increase production annually. The farm features a seasonal CSA-style SNAP and HIP-eligible farm share program and delivers 70% of its produce directly to local hunger relief partners (which includes The Salem Pantry).

As a registered United Plant Savers Botanical Sanctuary, the farm features an exceptional perennial herb garden and herb drying program. Overall, approximately 75% of the farm’s produce and herbs make their way to low and moderate-income families on the North Shore.

Kerry Murphy, Mack Park development team

The Mack Park Farm is a community farm at a City of Salem Park that was created in the fall of 2019 in response to a community food assessment. 

The mission of the Mack Park Farm is to enhance local and regional food security by providing our community with healthy, locally grown food, building community through urban farming, and engaging the community in the benefits of regenerative farming practices.

Community volunteers play a big part in the success of our farm and help with planting, harvesting, and running our free farmers' markets. Volunteers also get to take home fresh produce!

To volunteer, please sign up here, or contact Kerry Murphy at kmurphy@salem.com.

Nick Cloutman, Owner

Cloutman Farms is dedicated to growing high-quality mushrooms and helping the community discover the joy of cultivating them at home. We provide fresh, locally grown mushrooms, easy to grow kits, and expert guidance for mushroom enthusiasts of all levels.

Key Takeaways from Our Table:

*Grow Mushrooms at Home: Learn how to cultivate mushrooms in your own garden or kitchen with our simple step-by-step guides.

*Sustainable & Nutritious: Mushrooms are a powerhouse of nutrients and an eco-friendly way to produce food.

*DIY Mushroom Growing Instructions:  Get started with easy-to-grow varieties like oyster! 

*Grow Kit Instructions : A Guide to Growing Oyster Mushrooms at Home

This kit includes:

• Tree Oyster mushroom spawn

• Plastic bag, 2 rubber bands, twist tie

Abby Hardy-Moss, Vice President of Stewardship, Planning & Technology

Among other things, Greenbelt conserves farmland to support the local food economy, to ensure farming remains an integral part of our communities and to preserve our agricultural heritage.

Greenbelt has protected over 1500 acres of working farmland including these notable farms:

-Moraine Farm, Beverly
-Tillies Farm, Peabody
-Dodge Farm, Wenham
-Iron Ox Farm, Hamilton

Are you able to find a potential growing space near you?

Dinner provided by Root, a  non-profit that serves Essex County

Root’s mission is to help young adults create a pathway to independence through food service training and employment. By developing essential life and work readiness skills, youth leave Root prepared for success in the workplace.

Learn more about our Culinary Training Program: A 14-week culinary training program that combines hands-on food service training with workforce readiness skills.

To support Root, please think of using Root as your caterer.

If you are looking for an event space for an office meeting, fundraiser or personal event, please consider HarborPoint.

Kim Gregory, Owner

Apple desserts provided by Kim.

Once upon a timethere was a passionate new mother who was determined to create whimsical sweets for her daughter, who needed special care in the way she ate. The essence of pure pastry was born from that desire to bake a chocolate chip cookie and embrace it for its simplicity. There is power in the pure, natural, and honest.

Our company speaks for itself - pure pastry is pure love

Kerry Murphy, Health and Wellness Coordinator, City of Salem

The Salem Food Policy Council assesses the city’s food landscape and engages the Salem community to identify how and where community members are able to access nutritious and affordable food, and makes evidence-based recommendations to community and municipal leaders to promote food justice and health equity.

If you would like to get involved with the Salem Food Policy Council, please consider joining one of our subcommittees. A description of the subcommittees and details for how to join can be found here (in English and Spanish), or by emailing Kerry Murphy at kmurphy@salem.com.

If you would like to learn more about advocacy and what food policy bills are before the MA state legislature, visit the MA Food System Collaborative's website.

A Neighborhood Food Sharing Model

We are the Freedson Family, Jen, Scott and our 6 & 8 year old girls. We live in an awesome neighborhood in Ryalside, Beverly.

12 Years ago in April we moved in and have had the joy of growing our own food and cut flower garden each year since then. When we bought the house, the first project we did was building 4 large raised garden beds on the front lawn. We wanted to grow food there as a way to connect with our neighbors. During covid it became a special way to feel safe socializing and sharing nourishing exchanges.

About that time our oldest daughter decided to start leaving extra produce we'd grown on neighbors doorsteps. She always loved the "little free libraries" and so she decided we should build our own "little free farm" and start giving away our extra produce to neighbors. It was an instant hit and became a spot where people swap seeds, seedlings, bundles of herbs, jarred goods and of course, produce.

Considering doing something similar in your neighborhood and have questions? Contact Jen

Janelle Rolke, Outreach and Development Manager

Change is Simple instills lifelong social and environmental responsibility through experiential learning that inspires action for healthy people, planet, & community.

At our event table, Change is Simple is using materials from our Future of Food lesson. Students become farmers and learn how farming practices are changing due to climate change. Students will participate in three growing seasons and learn about farming practices, read from our farmers almanac and get to experience our unpredictable weather through our Wheel of Weather!

Beverly Bootstraps provides critical resources to families and individuals so they may achieve self-sufficiency. We offer emergency and long-term assistance including: access to food, housing stability, adult and youth programs, education, counseling and advocacy. We are community funded and supported.

Bruce Orr, Artist, Public Muralist, and Art Therapist

Created the 2 giant apples on stage out of 100% recycled materials, with the help of the youth and families at the 2024 Pumpkin Smash event. 

ArtByInkwell@gmail.com
978.810.1900

Actor and Storyteller with North East Story Telling

Our Food Fight green apple.

Tony Toledo has been telling stories to pay his rent since 1990. Students in elementary schools across New England clap for more stories. Young library listeners sit eagerly to hear what he’ll tell next. Birthday children request special stories for their special day. Tony always gives the birthday child a lucky golden dollar. Everybody gets a riddle bookmark and a head full of stories.

Beverly Resident & Food Fight Producer

Our Food Fight red apple

When she’s not playing an apple, Christina Frei helps business owners find their true voice with her holistic marketing approach, Marketing for Humans. She is the author of The Generosity Practice: 40 Days to Unstoppable, a mindset book for creative thinkers.  A Beverly resident, Christina cold dips at Dane Street beach and helps Green Beverly however she can.

Nina Orlando & Lily Ducharme, BHS DECA Students

Made possible by the generous donations from several sponsor (below).

Thank you to participating students and adults:

Centerville Principal, Julie Smith

Centerville STEAM Integration Specialist, Nikki Rupu

Onstage, the 4th grade student actors from Centerville’s Green Team

Christina Leal, SNS, School Nutrition Director

Beverly Public School’s School Nutrition Department proudly supports local Vendors

Recording Food Fight

BEVERLY COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA (BEVCAM)

BevCam is a community media center based in Beverly, MA. We provide community media services to Beverly and the surrounding area. This includes your local municipal meetings, sports, education, public access, and more.

Julia Long, Director of Community Engagement & Food Fight Event Coordinator

Green Beverly is a non-profit working to lower the carbon footprint of Beverly residents and businesses by providing services, running community programs, and facilitating knowledge sharing.

Let’s work together to live more sustainably.

Learn about Green Beverly’s Food Diversion Program which rescues food from grocery stores that would otherwise go into the trash. Volunteers with this and other local programs and events are needed.

Membership and Donations to Green Beverly help our non-profit continue our sustainability efforts in the city.

See the impacts that we’ve made.