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Rhode Island Stories

Home 5 Rhode Island Stories

These student-written stories highlight how Rhode Island agencies, organizations, businesses, and individuals are working to improve the state’s food system. Each story is linked to a goal set out in Relish Rhody, our state’s 5-year food strategy.

Preserve our farms and fisheries

Brandon Family Farm

Rhode Island Farmland Preservation Program

Rhody Wild Sea Gardens

RI Farm to School Network (NEW!)

Southside Community Land Trust:

Urban Edge Farm

Walrus & Carpenter Oyster Farm

Divert food from landfills

Earth Care Farm

Eating with the Ecosystem

Farm Fresh Rhode Island Market Mobile Program

Groundwork RI 

Hope’s Harvest RI

Ensure food access

Amos House

African Alliance of Rhode Island (AARI): Community Garden

Farm Fresh Rhode Island’s Farmers Markets and Bonus Bucks Program

Garden Time

Newport Health Equity Zone, Food Access Working Group

Pell Elementary School Community Garden

Sankofa World Market, Gardens, and Community Kitchen

The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center – Feed a Friend Food Pantry

The West End Community Center Food Pantry (NEW!)

Support our businesses

Aquidneck Community Table’s Aquidneck Growers’ Market

Clean Ocean Access’s Healthy Soils Healthy Seas Rhode Island

Hope & Main (NEW!)

Land & Sea Together (NEW!)

Newport Lobster Shack

Sanctuary Herbs of Providence

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