The roof is on. The windows are in. At Urban Edge Farm in Cranston, the first phase of SCLT’s second food hub is 75% complete. The new building rising on the landscape is only part of our decades-long story at Urban Edge.
Next door, a renovated dairy barn is part
of a longer-term vision for a full farm infrastructure campus at Urban Edge, where farmers can move seamlessly from harvest to processing to market. In future phases, the campus will offer kitchen, classroom, food processing, meeting, and shop space, where farmers can gather, learn, and build their operations. The campus will bring to life what our expanding network of farmers and long-time partners at the RI Department of Environmental Management have helped to envision: a complete, professional-grade infrastructure system designed around farmer needs.
Behind the scenes, our properties, farmer training, and food access teams are already deep in preparation mode, sourcing equipment, attending food safety trainings, and laying the groundwork for the rollout of a multilingual farmer training program. When the doors open at the new food hub this fall, more than 150 agricultural producers across RI will be ready to walk through them.
