Boston Local Food

Pride Month Feature: ✨ 🎉 ❤️ * 🏳️‍🌈 🥳 💫 At Nüssli118°, we believe food should nourish, delight, and bring people together. This Pride Month, we’re celebrating community, inclusivity, and joyful living with organic, plant-based treats crafted with care and intention. From our grain-free granolas and sprouted organic nuts to our signature date-sweetened Brownies & Blondies, every product is thoughtfully made to support wellness without sacrificing indulgence. As a woman- and minority-owned small business, we are proud to create food that celebrates authenticity, connection, and the simple joy of sharing something delicious.

Celebrate Pride Month with nourishing, plant-based treats from Nüssli118°. Organic and gluten-free and crafted with intention—because joyful living should taste delicious. ✨ 🎉 ❤️ * 🏳️‍🌈 🥳 💫

Pride Month Feature ✨ 🎉 ❤️ * 🏳️‍🌈 🥳 💫: Lakon Paris Patisserie is a locally owned French-inspired bakery and café with four locations across the Boston area. We are passionate about creating handcrafted pastries, specialty desserts, and coffee experiences that bring people together through creativity, culture, and community.

To us, Pride is about celebrating authenticity, diversity, inclusion, and the freedom for everyone to be themselves. We believe that food has the power to connect people from all backgrounds, and we’re proud to be part of Boston’s vibrant and welcoming community. To celebrate Pride Month this year, we are introducing our limited-edition Rainbow Croissant, featuring colorful laminated layers that symbolize the beauty and diversity of our community. We hope it brings a little extra joy and color to our guests throughout the month of June.

: 🍎 Get $25/month for fresh food at Boston Farmers Markets this Summer!
The is offering residents $100 in coupons to spend at participating Boston farmers markets from July through October. You may be eligible if you are over 18 and need help affording groceries. Coupon supplies are limited, so apply today at boston.gov/farmers-market-coupon or by calling 3-1-1 (interpretation services available).

Apply directly online via the public link: https://www.boston.gov/departments/food-justice/boston-farmers-market-coupon-program

🍎 Get $25/month for fresh food at Boston Farmers Markets this Summer!
The is offering residents $100 in coupons to spend at participating Boston farmers markets from July through October. You may be eligible if you are over 18 and need help affording groceries. Coupon supplies are limited, so apply today at boston.gov/farmers-market-coupon or by calling 3-1-1 (interpretation services available).

Pride Month Feature ✨ 🎉 ❤️ * 🏳️‍🌈 🥳 💫: The Real Chai is a Boston-based craft beverage brand devoted to the art of authentic, slow-brewed masala chai. While the modern market is saturated with sugary syrups, powders, and generic concentrates, we honor the traditional methods passed down through generations in Indian homes. Operating out of the Commonwealth Kitchen in Dorchester, we freshly brew our masala chai and hand-blend our dry artisan packets using premium Assam black tea leaves and whole organic spices. Grounded in Ayurvedic wellness principles, our chai delivers clean energy and bold, spice-forward flavor with absolutely no shortcuts. We are currently serving our freshly brewed masala chai and artisanal blends at local farmers' markets, neighborhood events, and through community catering.

Our brand tagline is "Live Your Reality," and to us, Pride is the ultimate celebration of that philosophy. Pride means being bold, vibrant, and unapologetically real. In a world that often pushes people to dilute their identity or take shortcuts to blend in, Pride is a reminder to stand firmly in your true flavor. Just like a proper cup of slow-brewed chai, living your truth requires patience, intention, and a refusal to compromise on authenticity. We believe in celebrating heritage, community, and the freedom for everyone to live their absolute truth.

Our Special Pride Features & Plans
This June, we are bringing the "RealTea" to the farmers' markets and fitness communities across Boston! Catch us on the move at these upcoming events:
* June 6th: We are hosting a special "Pride Giveaway" of our bold masala chai blends at the Roslindale Farmers Market.
* June 13th: We are fueling the city by serving our newly launched Iced Bottled Chai to the R3vive fitness community directly following their 4th Annual Pride Workout.
* June 14th: Find us for another round of our vibrant "Pride Giveaway" featuring our signature dry blends at the SoWa Open Market.

Please visit their website at www.therealchai.com and reach out if you want a true taste of our "RealTea."

Pride Month Feature 🌈 ✨ 🎉 🥳 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜: Chill's Cheesecakes is an LGBTQ+ owned business started by my partner, Tom, and me. We specialize in crafting mouthwatering 'gour-mini' cheesecakes in a variety of flavors. Each is perfectly portioned, making it ideal for events, parties, or just a simple indulgence without the guilt of a full slice. We are so lucky to be part of such a vibrant and inclusive community and love sharing our passion for cheesecake with everyone.

We are so lucky to be part of such a vibrant and inclusive community and love sharing our passion for cheesecake with everyone. 🧁 🍰 😋 👨‍🍳 👩‍🍳

🌈Pride Month Feature ✨ 🎉 ❤️ * 🏳️‍🌈 🥳 💫: Founded by Gastronomy graduate Miguel Allis, Hawt Chocolate crafts artisanal, flavor-packed treats designed to turn any moment into a celebration. Born from a love of family, travel, and unforgettable food experiences, we make handcrafted chocolates that are as inclusive and vibrant as they are delicious. Because life is too short for bad chocolate or boring conversations.

To us, Pride is the ultimate celebration of authenticity, love, and community. As a Mexican-born, q***r-owned business, Pride means creating a space where everyone is welcome at the table. "Hawt" started as Having A Wonderful Time, and this Pride Month, we’re celebrating the freedom to love out loud, live creatively, and share joy—one exceptional chocolate at a time. 🏳️‍🌈🥳🍫

Volunteer Opportunity for local food lovers!

Volunteer with us at the 16th Annual Boston Local Food Festival on Sunday, September 20th on the Rose Kennedy Greenway! 🍅🌽💚

Be part of the team that brings this vibrant, sustainable, community-powered event to life. Volunteers get:
✅ $15 in food vouchers for every shift worked
✅ A fashionable festival t-shirt
✅ Networking opportunity with like-minded individuals!

Shifts available morning through evening, with roles like:
✨ Set-Up Crew
🚗 Parking Control
📣 Public Engagement & Data Collection
🌎 Zero-Waste Heroes
👩‍🍳Chef Demo & Programming Support
🎉 Tear-Down Team

⚠️ A virtual training session is required based on your role—don’t worry, we’ve got multiple dates to fit your schedule!

👉 Sign up today on our website or in our Linktree

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍎🥕🌽🥦🫐🫜 This month we celebrate Pride with our many q***r siblings across the state and throughout local foods. Pride parades commemorate resistance to violent erasure through both celebration and protest. It celebrates progress and defies threats of backsliding.

The LGBTQIA+ family includes farmers, food makers, fisherfolk, restaurateurs, distributors, the variety of roles that make our local food happen, business owners and employees, and customers and partners.

We are seeing in many parts of the country a rise again in hate-driven backlash and legislative policing—particularly targeting transgender people. Q***r economic inclusion needs to go deeper than the rainbow branding.

Here at the Boston Local Food Program, we celebrate the rainbow of diversity around us all year round. Through working with small businesses, with our own staff and families, we appreciate all that the Pride movement has done for everyone, and we are grateful for the opportunity to uplift the LGBTQIA+ business owners in our network every month of the year. May you feel the joy and radical love that makes Pride Month special all year round.

✨ That’s a wrap on May Eat Local Always! ✨

As May comes to a close, we want to extend a massive THANK YOU to all the incredible local farmers, fishers, food makers, and partners who collaborated with us this month.

From celebrating the women Rooted in Care and seeing our local Farms in Bloom, to diving into Local Seafood in Season and welcoming back our favorite Farmers Markets, you are the heartbeat of our food system. Thank you for your hard work, dedication, and for nourishing our communities every single day 🌱.

And to our amazing community—thank you for choosing to eat and shop local! Every choice makes a difference.

Week 1: , , and Coast Market
Week 2: -Locke Community Farm, ’s Fruit Farm, Hedge Farms, Fire Farm
Week 3: Marden’s Seafoods, Shellfish Farms, Lobster,
Week 4: Farmer’s Market, Boston FM, Public Market, Farmers Market

Let us know in the comments: What was your favorite local find or market visit this month? 👇