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Youth Staff

Seeking youth, 14-18, for summer jobs in Providence and Pawtucket

05/30/2023 admin Galego, healthy food access, SCLT jobs, Somerset Hayward Farm

Southside Community Land Trust is offering 6-week summer jobs based at urban farms in Providence and Pawtucket, from July 5 to August 15.

As SCLT youth staff, you will work together to help build a community food system where food is affordable, healthy, and culturally appealing. You will also:

  • learn how to grow delicious, healthy food
  • learn about sustainable growing practices, environmental resilience and land stewardship
  • learn about nutrition and cooking, and make healthy lunches for the program
  • work towards/earn certification in food and workplace safety (ServSafe and OSHA 10)

Providence activities will be based at Somerset Hayward Youth Enterprise Farm in South Providence. The Pawtucket program will be based at Galego Community Farm in Pawtucket.

Youth staff will be selected based on their interest in positively impacting their communities and willingness to engage in hands-on farming, cooking and food access tasks.

Applications are available here.

The deadline for applying is 5 p.m. on Tues., June 13. 

This project is funded by the RI Governor’s Workforce Board, One PVD for Youth, the Papitto Opportunity Connection, Amica Charities Foundation, the Island Foundation, Bank of America, Textron, and other funders. Thank you for your support!

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Youth staff at Galego Community Farm

Saturday youth jobs now offered in Providence & Pawtucket

09/30/2021 admin Galego, Pawtucket, SCLT jobs, Somerset Hayward Farm, Southside Community Land Trust, urban agriculture

We’re adding on to our fall Youth Program this year! Young people between 14-24 are invited to apply for Saturday jobs located at SCLT urban farms in Providence and Pawtucket.

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Chandelle profile pic

Welcome Chandelle Wilson, our new education programs manager

08/30/2020 admin Southside Community Land Trust

“One of my earliest memories is digging up potatoes with my grandmother,” recalls Chandelle Wilson, who became SCLT’s education programs manager in June.

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Providence youth visit to Peckham farm

Hiring is open for youth summer jobs

05/07/2020 admin healthy food access, Pawtucket, SCLT jobs

SCLT is  offering 6-week jobs for youth in Providence and Pawtucket this summer that will focus on farming, cooking, teaching and community organizing.

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SCLT, youth staff, Sankofa

High school Youth Staff grow, cook and build skills in Providence, Pawtucket and Central Falls

07/19/2019 admin Central Falls, Community Garden, Pawtucket, urban agriculture

Two weeks into SCLT’s summer youth program, nearly three dozen high school youth are busy learning how to tend, harvest and cook with fresh produce, as well as provide their neighbors with information about nutrition and climate change.

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South Providence, SCLT youth staff, urban agriculture, SCLT, somerset hayward

Looking for a part-time summer job in Providence?

04/22/2019 admin Southside Community Land Trust

SCLT is accepting applications for our Summer Youth Employment Program in Providence. Deadline is May 3.

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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.

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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.

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urban agriculture, SCLT youth program, urban farming, providence, rhode island

A farm is born, and a neighborhood begins to heal

10/20/2017 admin healthy food access, Somerset Hayward Farm, urban agriculture

Five high school students knelt over a bucket of garlic seed behind the Salvation Army on Broad Street in Providence. They gathered on a corner lot bordered by littered sidewalks and abandoned houses, getting ready to plant cloves whose bright green shoots will emerge early next spring.

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Youth staff lay claim to urban farm

04/06/2017 admin urban agriculture
Caption: Spring youth staff Infinity, Jailine and Sergio at the Somerset Hayward Community Farm.
Last Wed., Mar. 29, a playful, eye-catching mural was mounted at the Somerset Hayward Community Farm off Broad Street in Providence. The mural depicts a pitchfork with vegetables, an idea suggested by SCLT youth staff and created by Met School student interns at the Avenue Concept.
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