Tag: Southside Community Land Trust
DEM awards $130K to boost specialty crops
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Environmental Management announced $130,008 in farm viability grants to four organizations on Monday.
The funds come from the US....
Colonial-era house leased by Preserve Rhode Island for tenant farm
EAST PROVIDENCE – The Philip Walker House at 432 Massasoit Ave. has been leased by Preserve Rhode Island to a pair of tenant farmers...
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...
Groundwork RI to remediate Providence brownfield site for new compost facility
PROVIDENCE – Groundwork Rhode Island has partnered with the West Elmwood Housing Development Corp. to remediate a brownfield site on Fuller Street to become...
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...
2 R.I. nonprofits awarded with BofA Neighborhood Builders grants
PROVIDENCE – Two Rhode Island organizations, Skills for Rhode Island’s Future and Southside Community Land Trust, have been named 2019 Bank of America Corp....
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....
R.I. gets $276K in specialty crop support from USDA grants
PROVIDENCE – Four Rhode Island groups and the R.I. Department of Environmental Management were awarded a combined $275,557 to increase specialty crop production and...
R.I. receives $276K from federal specialty crop grant program
PROVIDENCE – Six Rhode Island-based groups working to support local agriculture were awarded $187,667 in farm viability grants, the R.I. Department of Environmental Management...
Southside Community Land Trust receives $26K in Whole Foods grants
PROVIDENCE – Grants totaling more than $26,000 have been awarded to the Southside Community Land Trust by the Whole Foods Market Whole Cities Foundation,...
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