Food Corridor at Peace & Plenty Community Garden
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Help us grow free food in Elmwood.
We (the gardeners at Peace & Plenty) are organizing this fundraiser for the Partnership for Providence Parks to benefit Peace and Plenty Community Garden and the local neighborhood.
As a response to mounting local food insecurity during the beginning of the pandemic last year, the gardeners at Peace and Plenty Community Garden asked ourselves, “What can we do? How can we help?”
During the summer of 2020, we we were able to:
1) Build out a 325’ food corridor along the inside perimeter of the garden fence. To date, we have cleared this previously unused stretch of land of weeds, amended the soil and planted blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, cranberries, sun chokes, rhubarb, asparagus and a variety of savory herbs interspersed with a variety of bee and butterfly attracting pollinators. The highlighted area shows the footprint of the food corridor in the garden.
2) Establish a Free Food Stand next to the main gate of the garden where we were able to offer neighbors vegetables, no questions asked. Thanks to generous gardeners and the Partnership for Providence Parks Produce in the Parks Program, we were able to offer free produce daily from April through December. The Free Stand was a great success!
Our goal for this season is to build upon the successes of last season by:
1) Planting a variety of fruit trees including apple, pear, cherry, plum, peach and persimmon along with strawberries, wine cap mushrooms, more savory herbs and pollinators, and build out the asparagus patch.
2) Building on the success of last season’s Free Stand by expanding the produce offerings this coming season.
Help us to make this project come into reality. Your contribution will go back into the local Elmwood community for years to come.
Hope's Harvest RI, in alignment with their commitment to community food sovereignty and building power in partnership, will match all donations up to $1,500. Learn more about Hope's Harvest RI here: http://hopesharvest.org/about
We thank you in advance to make this dream come true!
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About the Garden:
Peace and Plenty Community Garden is located on Peace Street in Providence’s Elmwood neighborhood, just across the street from Peace and Plenty Park. The garden is just shy of 200’ x 100’ and has 45 plots where a diversity of neighbors who grow food for themselves or for market. This year, we will be a featured garden in the Festival of Gardens by the Providence Preservation Society on June 12. Learn more and sign up to be alerted when tickets go on sale on our Festival website.
The garden, established over 30 years ago, is a Southside Community Landtrust garden. More information on SCLT here: https://www.southsideclt.org/
About Hope’s Harvest RI
Hope's Harvest RI mobilizes volunteers to collect unharvested produce and deliver it to needy populations. As an efficient and effective solution to the twin challenges of food waste and hungry people, farm-based food recovery (also known as “gleaning”) strengthens the local food system and makes our communities less dependent on commodity food shipped from thousands of miles away instead of what’s in our own backyard. More information about HHRI here: https://hopesharvest.org/
We (the gardeners at Peace & Plenty) are organizing this fundraiser for the Partnership for Providence Parks to benefit Peace and Plenty Community Garden and the local neighborhood.
As a response to mounting local food insecurity during the beginning of the pandemic last year, the gardeners at Peace and Plenty Community Garden asked ourselves, “What can we do? How can we help?”
During the summer of 2020, we we were able to:
1) Build out a 325’ food corridor along the inside perimeter of the garden fence. To date, we have cleared this previously unused stretch of land of weeds, amended the soil and planted blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, cranberries, sun chokes, rhubarb, asparagus and a variety of savory herbs interspersed with a variety of bee and butterfly attracting pollinators. The highlighted area shows the footprint of the food corridor in the garden.
2) Establish a Free Food Stand next to the main gate of the garden where we were able to offer neighbors vegetables, no questions asked. Thanks to generous gardeners and the Partnership for Providence Parks Produce in the Parks Program, we were able to offer free produce daily from April through December. The Free Stand was a great success!
Our goal for this season is to build upon the successes of last season by:
1) Planting a variety of fruit trees including apple, pear, cherry, plum, peach and persimmon along with strawberries, wine cap mushrooms, more savory herbs and pollinators, and build out the asparagus patch.
2) Building on the success of last season’s Free Stand by expanding the produce offerings this coming season.
Help us to make this project come into reality. Your contribution will go back into the local Elmwood community for years to come.
Hope's Harvest RI, in alignment with their commitment to community food sovereignty and building power in partnership, will match all donations up to $1,500. Learn more about Hope's Harvest RI here: http://hopesharvest.org/about
We thank you in advance to make this dream come true!
_______________________________
About the Garden:
Peace and Plenty Community Garden is located on Peace Street in Providence’s Elmwood neighborhood, just across the street from Peace and Plenty Park. The garden is just shy of 200’ x 100’ and has 45 plots where a diversity of neighbors who grow food for themselves or for market. This year, we will be a featured garden in the Festival of Gardens by the Providence Preservation Society on June 12. Learn more and sign up to be alerted when tickets go on sale on our Festival website.
The garden, established over 30 years ago, is a Southside Community Landtrust garden. More information on SCLT here: https://www.southsideclt.org/
About Hope’s Harvest RI
Hope's Harvest RI mobilizes volunteers to collect unharvested produce and deliver it to needy populations. As an efficient and effective solution to the twin challenges of food waste and hungry people, farm-based food recovery (also known as “gleaning”) strengthens the local food system and makes our communities less dependent on commodity food shipped from thousands of miles away instead of what’s in our own backyard. More information about HHRI here: https://hopesharvest.org/
Co-organizers (2)
Emily Ferrier
Organizer
Providence, RI
Partnership for Providence Parks
Beneficiary
Doug Victor
Co-organizer