Recognition & Media Interest
NESFP has received local, national, and international media coverage for its work with immigrant farmers. Stories about the project have been featured locally in The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Lowell Sun, The Bolton Common, North Andover area's Eagle-Tribune, The UMASS Extension Quarterly, Metrowest Daily News, Channel 5's Chronicle news magazine, and Cambridge Green; nationally in The New York Times, Gourmet, the National Culinary Review, The Christian Science Monitor, the SARE Educators Guide and the Sustainable Agriculture Network, Beyond Organic Radio and A World of Possibilities Podcast ; and internationally on the BBC. Media stories highlight areas of:
Please contact NESFP for copies of our media database.
Special Recognition — 2006 Glynwood Harvest Award Winner
In 2006, NESFP was recognized with the Glynwood Harvest Connecting Communities, Farmers and Food Award.
Glynwood Center helps communities address change in ways that conserve local culture and natural resources while strengthening economic well being.
Glynwood Center created the Harvest Awards program in 2003 to highlight work by individuals and organizations who are doing an exceptional job of supporting local and regional agriculture. The Awards help to identify and disseminate "best practice" ideas that will inspire others to take action within their own communities and build urban/rural coalitions in support of regional farmers.
In nominating New Entry, August Schumacher Jr., former Massachusetts Commissioner of Food and Agriculture and senior official at the USDA, wrote that New Entry: "…represents an excellent model for replication in other states, and initiatives in Maine, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and elsewhere have already been modeled on their work. It is innovative; it has strong local, regional and national support; and it is stimulating a rapid expansion of new immigrant farming initiatives across the region and the country."
