Check out our Market Mobile wholesale service to see some of the restaurants, schools, grocers, and other businesses sourcing local food in our community — like Ocean House and Wildflour! Plus, get a taste of some of the items on offer from local farmers and makers this week!

The Gleaners and I, a film by acclaimed French filmmaker Agnes Varda, documents various types of gleaners – in fields, cities, and junkyards – as they recover food and other found objects. Named one of the BBC’s 100 greatest films of the 21st Cent …

The Farm Fresh Winter Market in Pawtucket is open 9am-1pm every Saturday through April 25! This week, welcome first-time vendors Pickily Foods and Rhode Island Shellfish Co., plus music by Paul Williams and Karen Isenberg’s Me & U-kulele!

Don’t miss this food system news from around our region: “The Making It Happen: Profitability and Success” training series for farmers and food processors in February will give you the financial management toolbox needed to confidently improve your business decision-making and profitability. And don’t miss Our Streets PVD’s February “Mobility Justice Series,” including An Evening Keynote with Gil Penalosa, Founder of 8 80 Cities and former Commissioner of Bogota, Colombia.

Under the direction of our lovely volunteer Barb, our morning students worked together on a “Shark Tank” style food business competition! After two days of thought and animated discussion, a logo was designed, and “J-Popz” were born. Their secret? All natural ingredients!

Check out our Market Mobile wholesale service to see some of the restaurants, schools, grocers, and other businesses sourcing local food in our community. Plus, get a taste of some of the items on offer from local farmers and makers this week—like strawberry applesauce from our very own Harvest Kitchen!

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. 

The Farm Fresh Winter Market in Pawtucket is open 9am-1pm every Saturday through April 25, 2020! This week, welcome some exciting first-time and new returning vendors to the market, and check out our updated market maps for January and February!

Are you in search of new markets? Have you considered wholesale channels like colleges, hospitals, schools, food hubs, grocery stores, and cooperatives? The demand for local food continues to grow — is your farm or food business ready for the opportunities?

At first glance, the Rhode Island Training School looks like a typical juvenile detention center, but around the corner is something unexpected… A classic red barn sits on a piece of property filled with ducks, chickens, and gardening supplies.

Check out our Market Mobile wholesale service to see some of the restaurants, schools, grocers, and other businesses sourcing local food in our community—like Stock Culinary Goods in Providence. Plus, get a taste of some of the items on offer from local farmers and makers this week!

Watch Martin Bowman, a British gleaner, discuss food-waste as a global issue and gleaning as a means of reducing food-waste, providing nutrients to vulnerable populations and connecting people with their local food-systems.

Farm Fresh Rhode Island was awarded a $5,000 grant from Farm Aid to grow the connections between urban residents and farmers at our neighborhood farmers markets. Thank you Farm Aid — and its president, the great Willie Nelson!

The Farm Fresh Winter Market in Pawtucket is open 9am-1pm every Saturday through April 25, 2020! This week, restock your pantry after the holidays and get those kids and lingering guests out of the house for a fun, foodie good time.