A group of about 30 Eversource employees left their daily business tasks behind to get down and dirty on August 19 as volunteers at The Food Project's West Cottage St. farm, fanning out around Uphams Corner to clean up the Dudley Street Greenhouse, fill raised garden beds on North Ave, and harvest squash and dragon tongue beans at the Langdon Street site.
The team was led by James W. Hunt III, a lifelong Dorchester resident and executive vice-president at Eversource, who, while being interviewed, was anxious to get to work plucking tomato vines from the greenhouse.
"We are in 520 communities across our service territory, we have 4.4 million customers in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire, but we started here in Boston," he said. "Our service center is on Mass. Ave. in Dorchester, so we never lost sight of our roots, and today we are planting roots here with The Food Project."
The non-profit The Food Project, founded in 1991, works at the intersection of youth, food, and community with the belief that everyone deserves access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food. And the community greenhouse is one way that residents of the neighborhood can get just that.
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