MIT Farm

MIT Farm

It’s time to farm!

MIT Farm is a growing initiative that connects students, faculty, staff, and the broader MIT community around food, farming, and shared growing spaces. Several initiatives are underway: the student-led MIT Farm Club organizes weekly volunteer trips to partner farms including Hannan Healthy Foods Organic Farm, Eastie Farm, and Boston Medical Center’s rooftop farm; the Farm Cart serves as a mobile farmstand and a modular greenhouse system, bringing people together around food and sustainability; and the Fresh Food Bag pilot experiments with a new kind of communal CSA. Rather than requiring individual season-long commitments, MIT Farm purchases a community share from Hannan Farm each week, ensuring farmers are paid fairly while making discounted “grab-and-go” bags available on campus, often harvested by MIT students the day before. In parallel, MIT Farm is also designing and advocating for new growing spaces across campus that bring farming and “hands-in-dirt” learning to the heart of MIT’s campus.

Through harvesting in the field, distributing farm-fresh produce in Stata, and sharing meals together, MIT Farm fosters hands-on learning about food systems, sustainability, and community care.

Follow along on Instagram @mitfarm_ for updates, events, and weekly harvests, or reach out at farmteam@mit.edu to learn more and get involved.

Credits: The Farm Cart was designed and constructed by Aleks Banas, Dzidula Kpodo, and Zachary Rapaport. MIT Farm is a network of collaborators and partners across MIT and beyond, including the MIT Urban Risk Lab, MITOS, MIT Architecture, MIT Anthropology, and the PKG Center.