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We talk with Eduardo Tavar Lopez from the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project in Beverly about how new farmers get trained and why sustainable farming depends on real systems like land access, education, and distribution. We also connect the dots between organic standards, food literacy, and food security through New Entry’s incubator farm and Food Hub. 

• New Entry’s origins through Tufts University and its evolution beyond refugee and immigrant farmer support 
• Scholarships and training designed for new and beginning farmers 
• How an incubator farm works and why a three-year runway matters 
• What growers raise on the incubator plots and why vegetables dominate 
• Hydroponics learning options through self-paced online courses 
• What a food chemist does and how food science connects to farming 
• Practical definitions of sustainable farming that include environmental and financial reality 
• What organic certification means and why the transition period is costly 
• How the Food Hub aggregates local produce for schools, senior centers, hospitals, and food pantries 
• Mobile markets as a tool for food access and community reach 
• Why farming is “surviving” and how land access limits the next generation 
• Food literacy as a pathway to less waste and more respect for growers 

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