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Fair Foods
Fair Foods began in 1988 when Dorchester resident Nancy Jamison noticed a truck full of carrots being driven to the dump. She told neighbors that perfectly good surplus food was being thrown away, so they rounded up a few trucks and began picking it up from several locations. There was enough free food available for everyone to share with families, friends and neighbors. Fair Foods was born.
For the past 36 years, Fair Foods has provided healthy produce to low-income families in Boston and the greater Boston area. Its unique $2 Bag Program goes beyond emergency hunger relief to help make a healthy diet affordable for those in the local communities.
With a network of trucks and volunteers, Fair Foods rescues as much as five million pounds of produce annually, distributing it to over eighty sites in Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. No matter how much it grows, Fair Foods still remains community-operated, staffed by a network of hundreds of volunteers.
Fair Foods seeks to inspire and motivate people to practice this philosophy of sharing. It strives to develop and coordinate programs which put into action the equitable distribution principles that Fair Foods represents. The vast amount of worthwhile resources that are regularly put in landfills, dumps, and into our ecosystem is staggering. The organization’s work focuses on the reduction of food waste that could otherwise be put to good use.
Fair Foods is above all a loving, compassionate, and humanitarian organization. It is a beacon of hope, encouraging people to believe in the good of humanity and to reject apathy. Fair Foods is a proactive organization that inspires people to help one another instead of fighting amongst or neglecting one another. Fair Foods has at its base of action: love and the best interests of furthering the development of a truly good society. To learn more, visit www.fairfoods.org.
--Harding Ounanian Jr
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