“It gives them the sense that there is hunger in the community.” “It’s touched the hearts of Green Team members,” she said.
In addition to Three Sisters and The Open Door, the Green Team also has provided food for the program - vegetables students harvested from the high school’s garden last summer.īorgman said the stocked foods are almost entirely empty at the end of each week, evidence the program is meeting a need. For efficiency, the team last summer consolidated its distribution at the town hall location, a decision that made two of the mini-refrigerators surplus. When town hall closed to the public last December due to COVID-19, that station moved to the Ipswich Family YMCA.Ī new town hall station was installed when the building reopened last spring. The effort launched with food distribution stations - each with a mini-refrigerator and shelves - at town hall and a downtown coffee shop. The nonprofit Three Sisters Garden Project agreed to supply produce from its Ipswich farm, while The Open Door Ipswich Community Food Pantry volunteered to provide other foods, both at no cost. The Green Team conceived of the initiative in the fall of 2020 as a way to help the community during the pandemic. “It has given people the ability to anonymously get food when they need it.” “We want this to spread because it’s been so successful in our community,” said Ella Niederhelman, an Ipswich High School sophomore and Green Team member. “We are really proud of this project and are looking to inspire and engage other communities that are interested,” said Amy Borgman, co-adult mentor of the Green Team, a sustainability program for Ipswich middle and high school students that is an arm of the Ipswich Education Foundation.
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