Transplanted and Thriving in Providence
African refugees cultivate West End community gardenBy HANNAH POOR/ecoRI News contributorPROVIDENCE — Overgrown vacant lots strewn with abandoned mattresses, broken furniture and shattered glass dot...
View ArticleFreight Farms Encourages Farming Anywhere
By JOANNA DETZ/ecoRI News staffBOSTON — It’s a muggy summer night and you’re watching the Sox game on TV. During the commercial break, you decide to do a little farming, so reach for your smartphone...
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Growing an Understanding of the Land, Each Other
Summer Youth Program participants at one of The Food Project's growing sites Lincoln. (The Food Project photos) By JOANNA DETZ/ecoRI News staffLINCOLN, Mass. — The ground is saturated from heavy rains...
View ArticleSomerville Urban Farm Grows Food and Skills
By LUCY NUNN/ecoRI News contributorSOMERVILLE, Mass. — At first glance, the city’s industrial Boynton Yards neighborhood seems an unlikely home for hungry butterflies and bees and healthy garden...
View ArticleManton Avenue Lot Joins Urban Ag Movement
By KEVIN PROFT/ecoRI News staffPROVIDENCE — Construction of the Manton Bend Community Farm, a community garden on Manton Avenue, is nearing completion. The garden is part of the city’s “Lots of Hope”...
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U.S. Food Policy Subsidizes Twinkies Over Apples
By FRANK CARINI/ecoRI News staff One of the many young protesters at the Aug. 3 press event at Lippitt Park letting farmers market patrons know where she stands when it comes to Twinkies vs. apples....
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Solar-Powered Indoor Farm Sustains Fall River
S&S's Urban Acres is selling produce to Whole Foods and the Farm Fresh Market Mobile. Brad Dean runs the farm in a Fall River textile mill. (Tim Faulkner/ecoRI News) By TIM FAULKNER/ecoRI News...
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Avoid GMOs By Asking Questions, Checking Labels
By FRANK CARINI/ecoRI News staff Cranston resident Kate Katzberg participated last May in a ‘March Against Monsanto’ rally in Providence. (Joanna Detz/ecoRI News) In 2003, Monsanto introduced...
View ArticleLooking to Stop Antibiotic Overuse on Factory Farms
Food & Water Watch brings campaign to foodie-haven ProvidenceBy FRANK CARINI/ecoRI News staffPROVIDENCE — Gus Fuguitt arrived here less than three weeks ago, but he’s hoping Rhode Island’s capital...
View ArticleProvidence Votes to Restrict Factory Farm Antibiotics
By TIM FAULKNER/ecoRI News staffPROVIDENCE — Rhode Island doesn’t have any factory farms, but most environmentally conscious folks around here know they pose numerous health risks. A big risk comes...
View ArticleSmall Farms Growing in Rhode Island
By TIM FAULKNER/ecoRI News staffSmall farms and farming are on the rise in Rhode Island and across New England, while the practice is down across the country, according to a new federal report. The...
View ArticleGMO Labeling in Mass. Hotly Debated
Connecticut’s law could trigger labeling movement in the NortheastBy JOYCE ROWLEY/ecoRI News contributorMARION, Mass. — A recent encore showing of “Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives” at How on...
View ArticleProvidence Seeds Farm-to-Cafeteria Project
By TIM FAULKNER/ecoRI News staffPROVIDENCE — The city’s urban garden program is expanding into the classroom and the lunchroom. Thanks to a $150,000 grant, the Lots of Hope program that turns abandoned...
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Organic Corn Can Be Hard to Find
Organic corn is a labor-intensive crop that can be a little buggy. (Frank Carini/ecoRI News) The labor-intensive crop doesn't make farmers much moneyBy TIM FAULKNER/ecoRI News staffIt’s corn season,...
View ArticleAre GMOs Safe?
The answer is clouded by the considerable influence of big corporationsBy FRANK CARINI/ecoRI News staffTwo decades into the contentious debate that surrounds genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the...
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Ambitious Vision for Region’s Food Future
The Mount Hope Farm Farmers Market in Bristol is one of about a dozen markets being held in Rhode Island this winter. (Joanna Detz/ecoRI News) Report claims New England could produce 50 percent of the...
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CSAs: From Fall River to Falmouth
The Skinny Dip Farm greenhouse is unheated, but it still allows the Westport farm to grow straight through the winter. On sunny days it gets hot fast, so the greenhouse sides have to be rolled up to...
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Backyard Chickens Fly the Coop in North Providence
Hens at Sidewalk Ends Farm on Providence’s West Side. The city of Providence amended its ordinance in 2010 to allow chicken keeping. North Providence voted in March not to. (Kevin Proft/ecoRI News...
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Hungry for Something Different? Go Wild
Expert forager Russ Cohen pointed out a number of edible wild plants, including some invasive black locust, during a recent tour of the grounds of the Audubon Environmental Education Center in...
View ArticleNOFA Says ‘Heal the Climate, Heal Ourselves’
By ABBEY GREENE/ecoRI News contributorThis week the University of Massachusetts Amherst is hosting hundreds of people all dedicated to the cause of microbiomes. The Northeast Organic Farming...
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