TEDxBoston

City Fresh Foods

Can a 100% community-owned business provide high-quality, ethnically diverse, and healthy meals to Massachusetts residents?

City Fresh FoodsFind out how City Fresh Foods is revolutionizing the food industry by feeding the state and creating jobs and ownership opportunities in Boston’s economically distressed neighbourhoods. Tour the 11,000-square-foot facility of this nationally recognized food service company with Founder and CEO Glynn Lloyd. Sample delicious food, and see first-hand the cutting-edge work City Fresh does to prepare and deliver 8,000 affordable, healthy and tasty meals each day.

Report

Guests toured City Fresh Foods “from the inside,” “talking shop with CEO and food justice pioneer Glynn Lloyd.” In addition to touring the kitchen and facilities, participants enjoyed an intimate round-table discussion with City Fresh’s co-founder. TEDx community members shared their own insights into American food culture and learned about an initiative to transform Boston’s 800 acres of vacant lots into community-supported agriculture.

About TEDxBoston

What happens when a group of people rally around a radical idea and set in motion unlimited possibilities for a brighter future? A Revolution.

More than 230 years ago, ordinary citizens in Boston dreamed of a democracy and launched a revolution that changed the course of human history. That innovative spirit still thrives in our local students, educators, scientists, artists, leaders, and entrepreneurs. At TEDx Boston, we celebrate their ideas and their passion for improving the way citizens of the world learn, live, give, work, and play.

What is TEDx?

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxBoston, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxBoston event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.