We operate or support roughly 60 community gardens

and urban farms in Providence, Pawtucket & Central Falls, RI

Due to the demand for plots, many community gardens have waitlists. To find out about specific properties and get on a waitlist, reach out to their contacts below. For information about community gardens throughout Rhode Island, visit the Public Lab website.

SCLT-owned properties

These gardens are directly managed by SCLT. (See orange tabs in map below.) We prioritize giving plots to people who live within 1 mile of each garden. If you’re interested in gardening in one of the community gardens we manage below, please fill out the waitlist form or contact Andrew Cook at (401) 273-9419, ext. 107

  • Somerset Street Community Garden
  • Applegate Community Garden
  • Brattle Community Garden
  • Burnett Community Garden
  • Charles Street Community Garden
  • Dexter Street Community Garden
  • Galego Community Farm
  • Garfield Park Community Garden
  • Glenham & Glenham 2 Community Gardens
  • Greenwich Street Community Garden
  • Janes Street Community Garden
  • Laura Street Community Garden
  • Manton Bend Farm & Community Garden
  • Mystic Miner Community Garden
  • Peace & Plenty Community Garden
  • Potters Ave & Potters Ave 2 Community Gardens
  • Prairie North Community Garden
  • Sideyard Community Garden
  • Somerset Community Garden
  • Somerset-Hayward Youth Enterprise Farm

City-owned properties

These gardens are located on City Park land around Providence. Gardens are open to anyone in the surrounding community to join. For general information about forming or joining a community garden in your neighborhood, please email the Providence Parks Department Community Gardener in Residence at parkscginfo@providnceri.gov.

Other Community Gardens

These gardens are owned and managed by local agencies, churches, and schools. Each keeps its own waitlist, though SCLT partners with them to provide gardening resources and training to members. If you’re interested in gardening in one of these gardens, please get in touch with the contacts listed here.

City Farm

The oldest urban farm in Rhode Island, City Farm is located at 168 West Clifford Street in South Providence. City Farm staff grow and sell chemical-free produce all season long, creating a revenue stream for SCLT and providing opportunities for hundreds of youth, volunteers, and beginning farmers to learn about planting, tending, and harvesting food.

Over the past three decades, neighborhood children have learned about plant cycles and how food is grown at City Farm, while adults have benefited from gardening workshops and farm apprenticeships. City Farm produce is sold at two weekly farmers markets and donated to the RI Community Food Bank and the Project Weber/Renew food pantry.

City Farm is changing our food system in four crucial ways:

  • Providing healthy produce to thousands of people every year
  • Offering workshops on sustainable growing practices that produce high-yield crops in small, urban spaces
  • Promoting biodiversity, sustainability and community at our annual Rare & Unusual Plant Sale
  • Operating a composting program that’s kept more than 60,000 lbs. of food and other organic waste out of the landfill since 2013