Feature Article: The Food Project - a Private Tour

Posted: Monday, September 20, 2010
Nancy J. Conrad

The Food Project (TFP) is a visionary experiment in urban farming. Muller Mirville is a 16-year-old youth who wants to be a math teacher "when he grows up."

Two years ago, quite by chance, they met. Muller liked The Food Project work immediately and they've been teammates ever since.

This is the story of The Food Project as seen through the eyes of Muller Mirville.

Muller lives in Upham’s Corner and attends the Urban Sciences Academy, a part of West Roxbury High.

A couple years ago a counselor pointed him to The Food Project for a summer job. Now he works there full-time summers. When school's in session, he gets to do related activities like cooking for shelters.

He's enthusiastic. He loves talking about the kids and the outreach, how he gets to lead, motivate and teach others and the sense he has of making a difference in the world, one child at a time.

Muller took us on a tour of The Food Project sites in Roxbury.

The Urban Learning Farm
The Shirley Eustis mansion orchard
The main production farm
An abandoned greenhouse they just acquired

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