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SCLT creates community food systems where locally grown, affordable and healthy food is available to all.

We provide land, education and other resources so people in Rhode Island can grow food in safe and environmentally sustainable ways. Southside Community Land Trust is a change agent for people in Rhode Island who have been systematically excluded from accessing healthy, affordable food. We enable gardeners and farmers to grow culturally appealing produce without toxic chemicals primarily for people living in marginalized communities.

05/26/2026

Still searching for meaningful summer work? SCLT is hiring a Seasonal Food Access Associate and we're looking for someone who cares about food justice and wants to be part of the work of getting fresh, locally grown produce to the people in our communities who need it most.

The role touches a lot of what makes our food system work: receiving and packing produce from farmers, delivering food to households and community partners across Providence, Pawtucket, and Central Falls, supporting farmers with invoicing and record keeping, and creating educational materials for program recipients. It's hands-on, community-rooted work, up to 25 hours a week from July through mid-November, at $20 to $23 an hour.

Bilingual candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. Find the full job description and application details at https://bit.ly/FoodAccessAssoc

05/23/2026

🗣️ Rhode Island farmers and growers: share your thoughts!

The Rhode Island Growers Committee, a partnership of the Northern RI Conservation District, Rhode Island Food Policy Council, Eastern Rhode Island Conservation District , Young Farmer Network of Southeastern New England, and Southside Community Land Trust, has launched a short survey to understand what you see as the biggest challenges facing people growing food, managing woodlands, and raising livestock across the state.

The survey takes 5 to 10 minutes and is available in six languages: English, Spanish, French, Hmong, Kinyarwanda, and Swahili. Your answers will shape what the Committee focuses on going forward, finding practical, collective solutions to the challenges you're actually facing.

Scan the QR code on the flyer, visit nricd.org to take it online, or reach out to any of the partner organizations to request a printed form.

Know someone who should take this survey? Pass it along.

05/20/2026

We're hiring!

Southside Community Land Trust is searching for a Seasonal Food Access Associate to join our team this summer and fall. This part-time position supports our Healthy Food Access Program including community food access and produce aggregation work, connecting farmers and fresh produce with the communities we serve across Providence, Pawtucket, and Central Falls.

If you're passionate about food justice and want to spend your summer doing meaningful work, we'd love to hear from you. Find the full job description and application details at https://bit.ly/FoodAccessAssoc

05/15/2026

Today is World Community Land Trust Day, an annual global moment to celebrate CLTs and the communities that make them possible.

We're proud to be part of that movement. For 45 years, Southside Community Land Trust has been stewarding land in Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, and Cranston for farmers, families, and neighbors who deserve a stake in the places they call home.

This year, we're marking the occasion the SCLT way: with plants!

Tomorrow, May 16, SCLT's 34th Annual Rare & Unusual Plant Sale opens at City Farm, 168 West Clifford Street in Providence. Whether you're a longtime supporter or meeting us for the first time, we hope you'll come out, dig in, and see what 45 years of community land stewardship looks like on the ground.

Plant Sale runs May 16-17. More info: https://bit.ly/SCLTPlantSale2026

05/13/2026

Plant Sale week is HERE, and we cannot wait to see you this Saturday and Sunday at SCLT's 34th Annual Rare & Unusual Plant Sale!

Here's something that might surprise you: SCLT grows more than 2,000 varieties of plants for the Plant Sale, from heirloom tomatoes (we have over 60 varieties of those alone!) to rare medicinals and native perennials. Every year, we introduce around 75 brand new varieties, carefully selected based on grower demand, culinary trends, and what's holding up best in our changing New England climate.

This year's new arrivals include three varieties we're especially excited about:

🌸 Nigella "Love in a Mist," a wildly beautiful flower that produces blooms in red, white, and blue up to 2.5 inches across, followed by equally striking seed pods once the flowers dry. One of those plants that earns a second look every time.

🟣 Mustard "Red Giant," deep, dramatic purple leaves on a culinary herb that's as gorgeous in the garden as it is in the kitchen. It's resistant to bolting and disease and reaches about 16 inches tall, making it a workhorse and a showpiece at once.

🌿 Saltwort, an 18th century Japanese heirloom with glossy, upright 12-inch shoots and a naturally faint, salty flavor that makes it a prized sushi garnish and a gorgeous salad green. The kind of thing you won't find at any garden center.

The forecast for the weekend is sunny and mid-to-upper 70s. Twenty thousand plant starts, 2,000+ varieties, live music both days, and perfect spring weather. Come find something you've never grown before, or stock up on tried and true favorites!

May 16 and 17, 10am to 2pm (SCLT members get in at 9am Saturday). Free admission. EBT and SNAP accepted. See you there!

https://bit.ly/SCLTPlantSale2026
https://bit.ly/SCLTMembers26

05/12/2026

Happy birthday, Southside Community Land Trust!

On May 12, 1981, recent Hmong refugees who had settled in Providence after the Vietnam War, Brown University students, and South Providence neighbors confronting abandoned buildings, burned-out lots, and a neighborhood with precious little access to fresh food found each other and decided things could be different. They called what they built "The Dudley House." Four years later, we were renamed Southside Community Land Trust.

The lots in these photos are now City Farm and Somerset Community Garden, SCLT's first and the beginning of what has grown into a network of 25 community gardens and farms across Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, and Cranston. City Farm is also where, for 34 consecutive years, we've gathered every spring for our Rare and Unusual Plant Sale. What started as an act of collective hope on blighted ground became something even bigger, for nearly half a century.

Forty-five years later, we're thinking about every person who showed up with a shovel, a seed, or just themselves. Many of our founders are still part of this work. That kind of staying power is rare, and we don't take it for granted.

Come celebrate with us. SCLT's 34th Annual Rare & Unusual Plant Sale is May 16-17 at City Farm, 168 West Clifford Street in Providence. Find something to take home and grow, meet the people behind this work, and become part of what's still, after 45 years, onGROWing.

Here's to the next 45 years!

05/06/2026

Your garden starts here. Or keeps going. Either way, SCLT membership has you covered.

Whether you're a first-time member or you've been renewing for years, annual SCLT membership gives you the tools and community to grow your own fresh, healthy food, while supporting the programs that feed our neighborhoods year-round.

Members receive 50 gallons of organic compost (valued at $110), early access to the Rare and Unusual Plant Sale, a 10% discount on Plant Sale purchases, free organic seeds, discounted gardening resources, and more. Membership is a suggested $55 per person or $125 for households and organizations, with a sliding scale so it's accessible to everyone.

Every membership, new or renewed, supports SCLT's urban farms, community gardens, and food access work across Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, and Cranston.

Join or renew today: https://bit.ly/SCLTMembers26

04/30/2026

📸 Picture this: you're first in line for SCLT's 34th Annual Rare & Unusual Plant Sale. This could be you!

Southside Community Land Trust Members get exclusive early access at 9am on Saturday, May 16, before the gates open to the public. Membership also includes 50 gallons of organic compost (valued at $110), a 10% discount on Plant Sale purchases, free organic seeds, discounted gardening resources, and more.

Whether this is your first year or your fifteenth, SCLT Membership connects you to a community of growers, farmers, and neighbors working toward a more food-secure Providence, while putting the best tools for your home garden right in your hands.

Annual membership is a suggested $55 per person or $125 for households and organizations, with a sliding scale available.

Join or renew today, before Plant Sale is here: https://bit.ly/SCLTMembers26

04/29/2026

The first session of the City Farm BioBlitz series was a blast!

On Saturday, April 25, we partnered with 15 Minute Field Trips and the Rhode Island Natural History Survey to spend a morning combing every corner of City Farm for living things. Participants worked in teams to spot and log animals, plants, and fungi into iNaturalist, building a real-time snapshot of the living community at one of Providence's most beloved urban farms. A BioBlitz is a concentrated push to document as many species as possible in a single place and time, and the data collected goes directly into ongoing biodiversity research.

We'll share a full species count once the findings are tabulated, but we're already excited about what this community of citizen scientists turned up on a beautiful April morning.

Didn't make the first session? No worries! There are two more coming up this summer and fall. Sign up today! https://bit.ly/CFBioblitz
📅 July 25 | October 3
🌿 9am to 12pm
📍 City Farm, 168 West Clifford Street, Providence

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