The Providential Gardener

Thanksgiving Feasts and Winter Farmers Markets

The Rhode Island Community Food Bank is talking turkey these days. As we plan our celebrations, many of us also think of sharing with our neighbors who are having a hard time. Rather than bringing a real turkey to the... Read more →

RI Food Day Events ~ October 24, 2011

The RI Food Policy Council released its first RI Food Assessment report this morning at the State House in a standing-room-only presentation. The assessment is the topic of a two-hour public discussion later this afternoon. Come to this presentation of... 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 →

Gleaners Wanted!

If you'd like to help the great folks at the Rhode Island Food Bank out, read on.... This is a cross reference to a post today (September 19, 2008) on the What Grows On in Rhode Island News Blog, a... Read more →

Blueberries ~ What's Not to Like?

Early this morning I picked a quart and a half of blueberries off my ancient blueberry bush. There are plenty more out there under the net, but that's what I had time for today. Why everyone doesn't have a blueberry... Read more →

Community Supported Agriculture ~ Time to Sign Up for the Coming Growing Season

Farm Fresh Rhode Island sends this news about joining CSAs: CSA Sign-ups Give Us Hope That Someday, Summer Will Return. the Providence Wintertime Market has satiated our desires for local fruits, veggies, eggs, cheeses, and so on, many of us... Read more →

Backyard Gardens Made Easier

Here is a great idea. Maybe others have thought of this, but I found it in Seven Arrows Early Winter Newsletter. [Ed. note: I encourage any and every commercial nursery to provide workshops, educational opportunities, and encouragement to us Rhode... Read more →

Edible Forest Gardens

If you follow through on the link to The Real Food Summit (the post before this one), you'll find links to a great green blog by NYU students called The Wild Green Yonder. They work on such things as local... Read more →

Rhode Island Real Food Coalition ~ A New Statewide Campus Initiative

The Sustainable Food Initiative (SuFI) at Brown University is well organized and active on several fronts. I think these excerpts from their November 19th, 2007, email will interest readers of The Providential Gardener, especially those who are connected with other... Read more →

edible RHODY ~ A New Quarterly Magazine You'll Eat Up

edible RHODY began publishing this year (2007), and the Fall issue, Number 3, is now available. The Providential Gardener senses a kindred spirit when reading the tagline ~ "Celebrating the Bounty of Rhode Island, Season by Season," so let me... Read more →