The Providential Gardener

Rhode Island Watershed Update

Here is another thing to do in the off-garden-season: find out what is going on with our rivers and watersheds. The Rhode Island Rivers Council website lists several watersheds ~ you live in or near one, and whatever fertilizers you... Read more →

Rhode Island Watersheds - Postscript

The last posting must have been too long, because it wouldn't take this info: Save the Bay's Eelgrass Restoration projects need volunteers. Here are the upcoming dates for planting eelgrass, and by the way, kayakers and experienced scuba divers are... Read more →

Rhode Island Watershed Restoration Projects

They say to follow the money, which is always a good idea, but I also follow the links. Yesterday I got an email newsletter, The Runoff Rundown, from The Center for Watershed Protection (CWP), located in Maryland, but with a... Read more →

RI Tree Council Volunteering

Enjoy working with youth? Want to help transform the Hartford neighborhood's Merino Park? The Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council, in collaboration with the Providence Department of Recreation, needs volunteers to help plan TREE DAY at Merino Park. The summer program at... Read more →

Volunteer Training for Purple Loosestrife Control

A Press Release from the Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association For Immediate Release, July 10, 2006 That lovely purple flowering plant you see growing in wetlands and along highways this time of the year is actually a very aggressive invasive plant called... Read more →

Natural News Network ~ A Blog for a Green Rhode Island

Natural News Network is another local blog dedicated to the greening of Rhode Island, "to help promote the growth of a green economy in the state." Its June news feature, Living Green in the City, by Mary Grady, highlights how... Read more →

Rain Gardens

Now that Providential Gardeners have endured the downpours of last October and the past week that flooded basements and yards and turned streets into rivers, it's time to consider rain gardens. A demonstration rain garden has been installed at North... Read more →

RI Rivers Council Meeting News

The next meeting of the RI Rivers Council is June 14, 4:00 p.m. All meetings are held in Conference Room B of the Department of Administration Building, 1 Capitol Hill, Providence (Smith Street across from the Capitol building. The RI... Read more →