The Providential Gardener

Give the Great Outdoors This Season

Let's shake things up this year by thinking "Shape Up" BEFORE New Year's Day. Why wait to make a resolution to get into shape or to keep in shape? Take action now! Shape Up Rhode Island begins early registration on December 15, 2008. It's an affordable gift ($20) you can put on your wish list if your have a job but your employer isn't offering to pay this year. [It's a very good investment for businesses, though ~ will build morale and make a healthier work force.] And exercise is one way to life your spirits in these somewhat depressing times. Read more →

Rhode Island's Winter Farmers' Market Begins! Buy LOCAL!

Farm Fresh Rhode Island, our four-year-old dynamo of a Buy-LOCAL organization, has established an indoor Farmers' Market for Rhode Islanders, with 34 vendors in a beautifully restored mill building just over the Providence-Pawtucket city line in the Hope Artiste Village,1005 Main St, Pawtucket, beginning Saturday, December 6, from 11 am to 2 pm. I went over there this morning for a press conference and saw the space, which looks vast today, but which Noah Fulmer, the director of Farm Fresh RI, says will be jam packed on Saturday.
Read more →