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PHOTOGRAPHER, BOSTON.
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Our Food
Who feeds us?
This is Rory. He picks your food and mine. Rory, and pickers like him at Ward's Berry Farm in Sharon, MA, play a vital role in our lives – but we don't know them.
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This collection, published in April 2019 in Gusto Journal, tells the story behind our food – from farm and sea to kitchen and compost. While this collection showcases a picturesque, sustainable food system, not all of our food comes from such trustworthy people and places. If we demand it, our consumer power and environmental consciousness can become powerful tools to bring a beautiful, responsible food system to fruition — one of which we can be unwaveringly proud.
FARM
Ward's Berry Farm
Sharon, Massachusetts
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Composting Pigs
These pigs eat Wards' inedible produce. Then, we eat the pigs.
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Jenna
Jenna, a picker at Ward's Berry Farm,
holding a freshly picked cabbage.
Factory on the Farm
Where produce gets washed and processed before it's eaten.
SEA
Northcoast Seafoods
Seaport - Boston, Massachusetts
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Northcoast at Dawn
Unloading
Fishermen unloading redfish at 5:30am.
Bella
Bella picks the miniscule bones out of our salmon with tweezers.
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Redfish
Redfish are an under-fished species – whereas cod is virtually wiped from New England. This pile is of fish that are too small to sell, but Andrew (the owner of Northcoast) will make sure they go to public school lunch programs.
KITCHEN
Boston College Dining Services
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
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Names of BC Dining​
BC Dining has the most diverse staff on Boston College's campus.
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A Hot Kitchen
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Derek
Derek is vegan, but he's still frying up a redfish from Northcoast for fish tacos.
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The Saturday After Thanksgiving
Many student employees work at BC Dining – and they work hard.
COMPOST
Save That Stuff - Materials Recovery Facility
Charlestown, Massachusetts
Conrad
Conrad engineers the engineered bioslurry – a cocktail of food and compostable packaging that's harvested for methane energy. He's disguising the slurry as a green smoothie in the blender, and he offereed us up a taste. Just kidding!
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Save that Stuff at Dusk
If you look close enough, you'll see a truck full of filmy plastic. A beverage company printed labels for their products, and were dissatisfied – so they sent them here.
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Compost Pile
The compost gets gathered here before entering the bioslurry. Notice all the containers of lettuce – I visited STS in the midst of the E.Coli outbreak in Boston. Thousands of containers and bushels of lettuce were recalled.
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Botched Ben & Jerry's
Hundreds of pints of Ben & Jerry's were mislabeled – so they were discarded. Conrad had to store them here since ice cream would upset the bioslurry. It's more solid than liquid because of the sugar.
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