by David Luke | Apr 17, 2025 | Carrot card, Just Eats, School Markets, Volunteer spotlight
Every week, a group of Somerville Public Schools students (Jackson Ardolino, Ava Marujo, Samantha Mood, and Jeremiah Thomas) rolls up their sleeves and joins us at Food For Free to pack grocery boxes for their neighbors across Eastern Massachusetts. Accompanied by...
by David Luke | Jun 30, 2023 | All Things Food For Free, Carrot card, Community, Just Eats, School Markets, Staff
As we wrap up Immigrant Heritage Month, we asked Food For Free Marketing & Communications Manager, Jessica Tretina, to share something from her experience as a migrant with us. Read on to see what she said! Somerville is my home, but it wasn’t always. In fact,...
by David Luke | Mar 30, 2023 | All Things Food For Free, Carrot card, HeatnEats, School Markets
March is National Nutrition Month, and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has made this year’s theme “Fuel for the Future.” Throughout the month, they have emphasized the importance of eating a healthy diet as well as making sustainable food choices. When my team...
by David Luke | Sep 28, 2022 | Carrot card, Just Eats, Partnerships
Lucy Shapiro is a rising senior at Carleton College studying chemistry and spent the summer interning with the Food For Free Programs team. Below, Lucy shares with us her experiences at Food For Free and reveals the importance of a food access model that provides...
by David Luke | Jun 17, 2022 | Carrot card, Partnerships, Staff
Food For Free intern Elli Sol Strich just finished her junior year at Tufts University and spent the last year working within the Programs team. Below, Elli Sol shares with us her experiences working with our Weekend Eats program and one of our dedicated, local...
by David Luke | Feb 23, 2022 | Carrot card, HeatnEats, Just Eats
Introducing our new program names: Heat-n-Eats, Healthy Eats, Weekend Eats, and Just Eats! Food For Free began in the ‘80s as one of the country’s first food rescue organizations. Today, while we still rescue millions of pounds of food every single year, we have many...
