Last week in the Harvest Kitchen culinary training program, we launched our Top Chef Competition — challenging our trainees with an intensive week-long project. Now check in to see how our inspirational team of budding youth chefs did!

As a small nonprofit, our work would be impossible without the generosity and dedication of our amazing team of volunteers. This could be you! This month, we have a wide variety of opportunities for helping out at your local food hub. Join us for some fresh food fun!

Who’s buying local in our community? Here are just a couple of the many customers who ordered fresh food from local farms on Market Mobile this week.

Harvest of the Month is a local food promotion campaign offered by our Nutrition Education team that promotes a different Rhode Island grown food each month (September through February) in school cafeterias and meal sites across the state. See the full Harvest of the Month schedule.

Our RI Farm to School team had so much fun at Springbrook Elementary School on Wednesday! Students tasted a local roasted butternut squash, apple, and potato recipe in their cafeteria — featuring local produce from Confreda Greenhouses & Farms, Lym …

This week in our Harvest Kitchen culinary training program for youth involved with DCYF, we’re having a Top Chef Competition! Our dedicated staff, along with volunteer extraordinaire Barb Simon, have challenged our trainees with an intensive week-long …

Who’s buying local in our community? Here are just a couple of the many customers who ordered fresh food from local farms on Market Mobile this week.

This Saturday at the largest indoor farmers market in New England: Shop to tunes from local musicians David Schneider as well as Patty & Buster! Plus meet our visiting civic groups: Children’s Friend and Lucie Contente, author of cookbook “Gluten & Gluten-Free Cooking in Perfect Harmony.”

For this week’s Free Sample Friday, stop into Harvest Kitchen 11am to 1pm for Veggie Box Soup! We’ll be cooking up delicious, hearty soup made from local produce leftover from this week’s Veggie Box. Come taste!

Check out this week’s newsletter about the upcoming delivery of local food, along with great ideas for how to store and prepare it, fun facts about farming, food systems, and more!

Know what to expect in your next Veggie Box delivery. Check out this week’s sneak peek!

Our Nutrition Education team has done a fantastic job working to refine and develop new curriculum for the new year. We are launching some new programs this month, and are excited to feature series-based programming that can expand on key topics more in-depth than the one-time programs we have offered in the past.

The Pawtucket Wintertime Farmers Market is the largest indoor farmers market in New England! This Saturday, January 13, we’re happy to welcome two brand new vendors to the market — Aleppo Sweets from Providence and Jaswell’s Farm from Smithfield!

This Saturday at the largest indoor farmers market in New England: The “balloon lady” is back from Art on the Spot! Plus hear from local musicians Against the Green and Coach Dave while you shop for delicious locally grown foods. Visiting civic group will be: Got Sun, Go Solar.