healthy food access

Robert Yaffee, Providence Monthly, Jophn Dille

The Plant-based City

07/17/2019 admin Community Garden, healthy food access, SCLT in the News, Sustainable Agriculture, urban agriculture

The capitol is flourishing – with urban gardens, farmers markets, and locally sourced menus

Lessons in urban agriculture at City Farm

07/08/2019 admin City Farm, healthy food access, SCLT in the News, urban agriculture

(This article was written by Andrea Feldman and appeared in JWU’s Culinary Now blog)

A group of 15 students from Johnson & Wales University’s Providence Campus, Regis College (Weston, Mass.) and Universidad de Congreso (Mendoza, Argentina) recently toured the Southside Community Land Trust’s City Farm as part of their research into food security and food access.

Jerome Charleus, community garden, SCLT, Providence

Farewell to Jerome Charleus

03/20/2019 admin Community Garden, healthy food access, urban agriculture

SCLT lost a knowledgeable gardener, partner in our food growing community and wonderful friend of the organization when Jerome Charleus passed away on Dec. 7. He will be missed by many.

404 Broad Street, Trinity Square, Providence, SCLT

Campaign positions SCLT as an ‘important community resource’

03/07/2019 admin Aggregation, GROW! Campaign, healthy food access, Somerset Hayward Farm, Trinity Square, urban agriculture

In the past year, SCLT laid the groundwork for a capital campaign–the GROW! Campaign–to renovate a building at 404 Broad Street in Providence’s Upper South Side. It will house our offices, a produce processing facility, a Youth Entrepreneurship Center and three leasable spaces for food businesses.

Urban Edge Farm plays growing role in state’s food economy

03/07/2019 admin Farmland Access, healthy food access, Urban Edge Farm

Driving down Pippin Orchard Road in Cranston, number 35 stands out. There’s a large sign for Urban Edge Farm next to the driveway. Turn in and you will see beautiful herbs, luscious vegetable fields, and an old barn.

Women in Action: As head of Southside Community Land Trust, Margaret DeVos leads a growing revolution

08/07/2018 admin Community Garden, healthy food access, SCLT in the News, Somerset Hayward Farm, Trinity Square, urban agriculture

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — I recently went on a walking tour of a sliver of South Providence known as Trinity Square. We went past Amos House and the Salvation Army. Past family homes and a block full of abandoned ones in the Barbara Jordan II development complex.

Garfield Park Community Garden, Mayor Diossa, SCLT, ribbon cutting

SCLT, Central Falls Mayor open new community garden

07/12/2018 admin Central Falls, Community Garden, healthy food access

Late Monday morning, Central Falls residents, public health advocates and community leaders gathered for a ribbon cutting at the city’s new Garfield Park Community Garden at 128 Garfield Street.

sclt youth staff, southside community land trust

High school students invited to apply for summer jobs at SCLT

05/16/2018 admin Central Falls, City Farm, Community Garden, Galego, healthy food access, Pawtucket, urban agriculture

SCLT has been working in South Providence since 1981 to provide people access to land, education and other resources to enable them to grow their own food. We are actively expanding our work in Central Falls, Pawtucket and Cranston. As a youth staff member, you will help create community food systems where food is affordable, healthy, environmentally sustainable and culturally appealing.