Tag: Margaret DeVos
What happened to Providence’s reparations initiative?
Jim Vincent threw himself into the work when he was appointed to the Providence Municipal Reparations Commission in early 2022 because he saw an...
Southside Community Land Trust granted $100K from UNFI Foundation to address...
PROVIDENCE – The Southside Community Land Trust’s quest to get more food out to the community received a significant financial boost, courtesy of United...
Southside Community Land Trust’s new food hub officially opens
PROVIDENCE – The ribbon was officially cut June 24 on the Southside Community Land Trust’s new healthy food hub located in a 12,000-square-foot renovated...
Community support helps Land Trust’s new food hub grow
PROVIDENCE – When the Southside Community Land Trust over the last several years needed to have harvested crops cleaned to be prepared as healthy...
Southside Community Land Trust creates farmland to feed urban neighborhoods
THOUSANDS OF LOW-INCOME Rhode Islanders in urban areas are getting sustenance from the unlikeliest of places: community gardens, plots of land converted into long-term...
URI to offer scholarships in sustainable agriculture to youths from ‘food...
PROVIDENCE – The University of Rhode Island, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will offer five scholarships next year for youths from...
Southside Community Land Trust gets $600K from feds to help new...
CRANSTON – The Southside Community Land Trust has launched a $600,000 federally funded initiative to help beginning farmers access resources, tools and training, Sen....