(6.9) Check out the fifth annual Urban Pond Procession. This year the festivities include performances by Gorham Crazed Robotic Divers of Mashapaug Pond, Big Nazo, Vessel Hat Brigade and students from Nathan Bishop Middle School playing homemade instruments. This year, the Procession will be held on held on Saturday, June 9th (rain date June 10th), […]
(3.24) The second workshop of the 2012 season over at Southside Community Land Trust (SCLT) focuses on raising chickens at home. SCLT Program Director (and savvy chicken keeper) Leo Pollock will go over all the chicken care basics and different kinds of coops one can use. Workshop cost is $5 and free for members of
(3.21) The famous Plant Providence workshops at the Southside Community Land Trust are starting up. Today learn about composting at the City Farm. The workshop will feature a classroom based lesson on composting basics from 5:30pm to 6:15pm at the SCLT office (109 Somerset) and from 6:20pm to 7pm will move into a hands-on composting
Head over to the Roger Williams Park Botanical Center today and learn how to get started with compost. The Southside Community Land Trust will host. Interested in compost but don’t know how or where to start? Southside Community Land Trust is hosting a free workshop “Composting 101.” URI’s Master Composter coordinator Sejal Lanterman will be
The Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular at the Roger Williams Park Zoo runs through October 31. What’s new this year? The theme of this year’s show will be “A Journey Around the World.” It will include scenes from the Seven Wonders of the World (Taj Mahal, the pyramids and Sphinx, Mayan ruins, the Great Wall of China, and
The Nature Conservancy of Rhode Island will hold its third annual State Director Breakfast this Friday at City Farm in Providence, an opportunity to meet its recently appointed director, Terry Sullivan. Check out their page “Top Five Must-See Migrations in Rhode Island” including the awesome horseshoe crabs. In late spring, adult Atlantic horseshoe crabs migrate
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This weekend is the 19th annual Southside Community Land Trust Rare and Unusual Plant Sale. City Farm is home to the Rare and Unusual Plant Sale every year. One weekend in May, hundreds of varieties of annuals, perennials, and fruit and vegetable plant starts are available for purchase. Most of the 18,000 plants were carefully
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Learn how to become a responsible and successful egg wrangler. Last fall the Providence City Council passed a new ordinance allowing city residents to keep up to six hens (depending on the size of the lot). But how to get started? Head over to City Farm this Saturday where the Southside Community Land Trust is