GreenRoots, Inc.

What is GreenRoots up to on a typical day? 🚶♀️Celebrating our final Caminata of the season. Caminatas Verdes are weekly outdoor walks with community members who learn about ways to become stronger advocates for environmental justice in their community. This year we hosted TWENTY-SIX caminatas. Building youth leadership! Our ECO Youth: 👻 Hosted a spooky movie night last night at the Chelsea Library. 🚲 Will lead a bike-tour through Chelsea tonight! 👩🍳 Recently hosted Youth Elemento for a pupusa-making class at our Teaching Kitchen! 👩🌾 Transitioning our garden beds to fall while getting our Freight Farm ready to become fully operational for year-round production! 🤝 Connecting with our community on lead poisoning prevention! Our Health Equity team is our door-knocking this week as part of the #GettheLeadOut Campaign with the City of Chelsea. Call 311 to set up an appt to get your water service line checked for lead. and more...learn more about all of our work on our website: https://lnkd.in/ddZEtNnd

GreenRoots in the News! "Urban Hydroponic Farm Debuts in Chelsea" | Oct 26, 2024 🔗: https://lnkd.in/eY-HBK3w "Healey Administration Delays Rules to Regulate Tailpipe Pollutants From Trucks" | October 24, 2024 🔗: https://lnkd.in/eh6wVjEd

What an amazing turnout today for our Freight Farm 👩🌾 Ribbon Cutting and Fall Celebration 🍂! Thank you to every single person who attended and helped make this historic day for food justice in Chelsea even sweeter. Thank you to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for partnering 🤝 with us on this work. Thank you to our speakers: Pete Healy, President of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Crystal Johnson, Assistant Secretary of Environmental Justice, Sal DiDomenico, State Senator, Judith Garcia, State Representative, City Manager Fidel Maltez, City Public Health Director Flor Amaya, and our very own Oscar Figueroa, GreenRoots Freight Farm Manager. Thank you to our Food Justice 🥑 Team: Cecilia Del Cid-Liccardi, Director of Food Justice, Vladimir Perez, Food Justice Organizer and Joanna Emerson, Teaching Kitchen Coordinator for working hard to make the Freight Farm a functional part of our food justice corridor. We could not do this work without the hundreds of hands and hearts who come together to do the work of creating thriving, secure, and resourced communities. Thank you for being on this journey with us. 🌟 Stay tuned for more photos of the events! #foodjustice #environmentaljustice #chelseama

Who doesn't love a great before and after? You’re invited to the Ribbon Cutting TODAY, Saturday, October 26, from 10am-12pm at our Teaching Kitchen (63 Pearl Ave, Chelsea). Join us to learn how we plan to integrate the Freight Farm into our food justice work and community building! 🎊 Plus enjoy some hot drinks and snacks.

It's arrived! We can't wait to show you our Freight Farm 👩🌾 tomorrow, Saturday from 10am-12pm at our Ribbon Cutting and Fall Celebration 🍂 ! Come by the GreenRoots' Teaching Kitchen (63 Pearl Street, Chelsea, MA) and celebrate this historic moment for food justice in our community. Food and warm drinks provided ☕ .  // ¡Ya llegó! ¡Estamos emocionados por mostrarles nuestra Freight Farm 👩🌾  mañana sábado de 10 a. m. a 12 p. m. en nuestra inauguración y celebración de otoño 🍂! Pase por la cocina docente de GreenRoots (63 Pearl Street, Chelsea, MA) y celebre este momento histórico para la justicia alimentaria en nuestra comunidad. Habrá comidas pequeñas y bebidas calientes ☕.

Thanks, Chef Ashley for teaching our community how to make some of our favorite take-out foods from scratch. We had a blast learning how to make dumplings and crab rangoon. Learning how to enjoy home-made cooking is a great part of a healthy lifestyle. #healthequity #healthyliving // Gracias a la chef Ashley por enseñarle a nuestra comunidad cómo preparar desde cero algunas de nuestras comidas favoritas. Nos lo pasamos genial aprendiendo a hacer dumplings y crab rangoon. Aprender a disfrutar de la cocina casera es una gran parte de un estilo de vida saludable. #equidadsalud #vidasaludable

Thank you to our friends at The Devonshire Foundation for visiting our Teaching Kitchen and La Finca in Chelsea. We had so much fun harvesting fresh, organic ingredients from our urban garden and preparing a delicious, nutritious meal. We are so proud of our farm-to-plate work, which helps fight food insecurity in the city. #environmentaljustice #foodjustice // Gracias a nuestros amigos de la Fundación Devonshire por visitar nuestra Cooking Kitchen y La Finca en Chelsea. Nos divertimos mucho cosechando ingredientes orgánicos frescos de nuestra finca urbano y preparando una comida deliciosa y nutritiva. Estamos muy orgullosos de nuestro trabajo que ayuda a combatir la inseguridad alimentaria en la ciudad. #justiciaambiental #justiciaalimentaria

🌱 You're Invited! 🌱 Join us for our Fall Celebration and Ribbon Cutting for our brand new Freight Farm!🥳 Come celebrate this exciting addition to our food justice corridor, enjoy refreshments (think apple cider donut), and spend time in community. Learn more about this project and how we plan to grow fresh, local food all year long! Our gardens may be going to bed, but our team is not! 🥕 🗓️ Date: Sat, October 26 ⏰ Time: 10am-12pm 📍 Location: 63 Pearl St, Chelsea, MA Parking is available over Pearl St & Hawthorne St. See you there!💚 // 🌱 ¡Estás invitado! 🌱 ¡Acompáñanos en nuestra celebración de otoño y el corte de cinta de nuestra nueva granja hidropónica!🥳 Ven a celebrar esta emocionante incorporación a nuestro corredor de justicia alimentaria, disfruta de refrescos (piensa en una dona de sidra de manzana) y pasa tiempo en comunidad. ¡Obtén más información sobre este proyecto y cómo planeamos cultivar alimentos locales frescos durante todo el año! ¡Puede que nuestros jardines se estén yendo a dormir, pero nuestro equipo no! 🥕 🗓️ Fecha: sábado 26 de octubre ⏰ Hora: 10 am a 12 pm 📍 Ubicación: 63 Pearl St, Chelsea, MA Hay estacionamiento disponible sobre Pearl St y Hawthorne St. ¡Te esperamos!💚

GreenRoots was honored to be part of the Museum of Science’s celebration of Dr. Robert Bullard, recognized as the “Father of Environmental Justice,” who was bestowed the Bradford Washburn Award. Dr. Bullard has shone light to the fact that Black and Brown neighborhoods are disproportionately burdened by environmental hazards. His lifelong efforts have been integral to the very work we’re carrying out in Chelsea and East Boston. Our local environmental justice fight is integrally connected to national and international movements calling for climate and environmental justice now.

GreenRoots staff and members recently joined the Executive Director from Bike to the Sea and some members of the Chelsea Bike and Pedestrian Committee to talk more about the potential connection from the Chelsea Greenway to the Northern Strand Community Trail, also known as the Bike to the Sea Trail, is a 10-mile public-use path. Most Chelsea and East Boston residents rely on public transportation to get to work, school, and important appointments. Transit justice brings together sustainability, mobility, public health, and economic opportunity for residents. #30yearsofenvironmentaljustice #transitjustice