The Tomato Fairy

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The Tomato Fairy Project

#NeighborsFeedingNeighbors #SpreadTomatoLove

Tomatoes are the gateway drug to growing your own and a stronger local food system. A few years ago I grew waaaaaaaay to many tomatoes and was leaving them on friends doorsteps and giving them away to anyone who was kind to others. I gave some to homeless man who burst into tears with memories of his grandfather’s farm and that the homegrown tomato was something rarely available to him. The next week I brought him more and some salt packets. It got me thinking about how to activate my community and learn from other projects across the country. Everyone deserves a really amazing tomato.

We provide vegetable plants to people in need to allow them to address their own food insecurity. We encourage people to give away their extra garden vegetables to random strangers for no reason at all or to reward someone who does something nice for others like your neighbor who helped shovel your sidewalk this winter, or a coworker. We believe that if current gardeners donated their extra produce to food pantries we can help our communities feed themselves. We encourage people to plant free gardens in their front yard and encourage permaculture projects that give back year after year such as fruit trees. One apple tree can produce approximately 80,000 pounds of produce over the average lifetime of 100 years.

We believe that healthy food should be available free to all and support these efforts through promoting edible landscaping projects throughout Boston. Our goal is to create urban forests and where recreational and art space meet functional orchards and gardens in a livable setting. Food producing plants are weaved into attractive landscaping and not just in raised beds.