Where You'll Find Us
- Farmers Markets
- Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
- Our customers include:
Little City Growers Coop
Farmers Markets
Community Supported Agriculture
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Summer, Fall
Tuesday pickup:47 Harrison St
Call: (617) 688-7957
Providence, RI 02909
E-mail: sidewalkendsfarm@gmail.com
CSA Manager(s): Fay Strongin
Tuesdays, 5-7 pm
May 21 - November 5, 2013
Our CSA, a share size often called a half share in other CSAs, provides members with a weekly supply of 5-8 seasonal items: salad greens, cooking greens, fresh herbs, and whatever else is ripe. This is an ideal share for a single vegetable-loving person, a couple, or a family that wants a CSA share to supplement their week's groceries.
A typical share includes:
-1/3 lb salad
-cooking greens (kale, collards, rainbow chard, turnip greens, rabe)
-a small bunch of fresh culinary herbs
-2-4 seasonal goodies, for example:
spring: scallions, radishes, peas
summer: tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, basil, zucchini, cucumbers
fall: turnips, beets, carrots, arugula, spinach
A share for the 2013 season costs $365 for 25 weeks of fresh seasonal vegetables, picked only hours before you receive them. That means that for just $1/day for a year, you've bought yourself a weekly share of local vegetables to enjoy May-November. Another way to see it is that you've bought yourself a share of a local enterprise and a relationship to three farmers who are committed to making our city a more fertile place.
Sidewalk Ends Farm in Providence, RI
Founded in 2011, Sidewalk Ends Farm is
run by Fay Strongin, Laura Brown-Lavoie, and Tess Brown-Lavoie.
Some of what we grow is available year-round.
Some of what we grow is available year-round.
A little about Sidewalk Ends Farm
Founded in the spring of 2011, Sidewalk Ends Farm is a 5000 square foot urban farm on Harrison Street in Providence’s Armory Park neighborhood. Once a vacant lot, the farm at Harrison St. has become a hub of food production, beauty, and community education. Beginning in 2013, our third season, we will expand our operation by cultivating an additional third of an acre at Red Planet Vegetables in Johnston, RI. This increase in production will enable us to better serve the demand for healthy local produce in our neighborhood.
We—Fay, Laura, and Tess—work together to grow delicious chemical-free vegetables. We sell our produce at the Armory Farmers Market (a mixed-income market around the corner from the farm) and to our neighbors through a CSA. We sell to local restaurants as a member of the Little City Growers Co-op, an 8-year-old urban and peri-urban direct marketing cooperative. We rely on our bikes and bike trailers to do most of the hauling and heavy lifting; we use them to transport our vegetables, and to divert material from the waste stream through our composting and recycling practices. Community education is also an important part of our work. We have taught workshops on seed starting, soil remediation, and urban homesteading. We host many visitors throughout the season, from tours of NRCS trainees, to kindergartners, to our neighbors and their children.
Founded in the spring of 2011, Sidewalk Ends Farm is a 5000 square foot urban farm on Harrison Street in Providence’s Armory Park neighborhood. Once a vacant lot, the farm at Harrison St. has become a hub of food production, beauty, and community education. Beginning in 2013, our third season, we will expand our operation by cultivating an additional third of an acre at Red Planet Vegetables in Johnston, RI. This increase in production will enable us to better serve the demand for healthy local produce in our neighborhood.
We—Fay, Laura, and Tess—work together to grow delicious chemical-free vegetables. We sell our produce at the Armory Farmers Market (a mixed-income market around the corner from the farm) and to our neighbors through a CSA. We sell to local restaurants as a member of the Little City Growers Co-op, an 8-year-old urban and peri-urban direct marketing cooperative. We rely on our bikes and bike trailers to do most of the hauling and heavy lifting; we use them to transport our vegetables, and to divert material from the waste stream through our composting and recycling practices. Community education is also an important part of our work. We have taught workshops on seed starting, soil remediation, and urban homesteading. We host many visitors throughout the season, from tours of NRCS trainees, to kindergartners, to our neighbors and their children.
Arugula • Beets • Broccoli • Carrots • Collards • Eggplant • Green beans • Kale • Lettuce • Mustard greens • Peas • Radishes • Scallions • Swiss chard • Tomatoes • Turnips
Bold foods are in season now according to our Harvest Calendar. Call to find out exact availability. Every farm and every season are unique. Most farms are also residences. Unless Farmstand or Pick Your Own hours are noted, please be respectful and call ahead before going to the farm.
Farm Fresh RI regularly revises the Local Food Guide with new information.
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