Farm Fresh RI is proud to present for sale to the public historic marble that traveled from Georgia to Providence in the 1890s to be used in the construction of the Rhode Island State House! Save the dates: June 9 through June 11.

After 16 years at Farm Fresh Rhode Island, Co-Executive Director Sheri Griffin will be stepping down in December 2022. In Sheri’s time at Farm Fresh RI, the organization has grown from a student-led project in shared office space in a basement at Brown …

Meet Harvest Kitchen, Farm Fresh RI’s culinary job training program and local foods café that is transforming lives and our food system. Located in downtown Pawtucket, the front of house is a local foods café. The welcoming space serves affordable, tasty, nutritious, and locally sourced meals. The back of house is a commercial kitchen that houses Harvest Kitchen’s processing operations and job training program designed for underserved teens. Learn more in this local food spotlight by volunteer writer Danielle Woodward.

Since 2020, we have been working with RI-based developers Jake and Co. to both support the existing Market Mobile platform — now over 10 years old! — and build a new technology platform for Market Mobile’s future. This much needed upgrade makes ordering and check-out easier for shoppers and gives farmers and food producers streamlined tools to connect with a variety of customers. This update will go live on July 7, 2022.

Providence, RI — Farm Fresh Rhode Island and Hope’s Harvest are proud to announce that as of June 2022, Hope’s Harvest is officially the home for all hunger relief programming at Farm Fresh RI. Hunger in Rhode Island is a significant problem that has o …

Providence, RI — The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) announces that U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Lester Moffitt will join Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee, mem …

PROVIDENCE — The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) Division of Agriculture has upgraded its Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) bulk purchase pilot program to provide an estimated 12,800 boxes of fresh Rhode Island food to …

You are invited to watch renowned stone carver Nicholas Benson create a unique art installation for our new headquarters in Providence. This public event will take place Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 20-22, from 11am to 1pm each day on the Farm Fresh terrace. On Saturday, May 22, the event will coincide with Farm Fresh’s year-round farmers market, Sims Market, which runs 9am to 1pm weekly.

With the recent development of the “Farm to Food Pantry” grant, 28 different local organizations and food pantries partnered to purchase locally grown food for those most vulnerable in our community through Market Mobile! We are thankful to the generous funders for making this possible: The Rhode Island Community Food Bank, The Providence Healthy Communities Office, The Rhode Island Foundation, and The Amica Companies Foundation.

This Farm Fresh RI construction update covers work from February through May — and is dedicated as a tribute to the extraordinarily hard-working individuals who showed up day in, day out to help advance our new Food Hub!

The Rhode Island Department of Labor & Training has a wide variety of programs and services to assist farmers/business owners, employees, and job seekers.

On Friday, the RI Congressional delegation announced federal funding that will enable us to build fresh food boxes with produce from local farms and deliver them to the RI Community Food Bank to feed hungry families statewide! We couldn’t be more proud to connect more local eaters with much needed food, while investing federal funds into the local agriculture economy!

Please steel yourselves for our third and most riveting construction update yet. As you may recall, the November Update detailed our extensive site work, and the December Update reported on the installation of foundations and footings. In this update, we’ll focus on the very successful installation of steel at the Farm Fresh RI Hub.

We are very happy to share our second Farm Fresh RI Food Hub Construction Update, which continues on from the successful completion of our initial site work — including the installation of 800 aggregate piers, detailed in our November Update. In this installment, we share with you the foundation work that has been completed.