The Farm Fresh Winter Market is open every Saturday 9am–1pm at 10 Sims Ave (on the corner of Kinsley Ave) in Providence. Check out our extensive vendor lineup!
You can even get your knives expertly sharpened while you shop!
As always, thank you for helping keep our community healthy. 155 customers can be in our facility at once right now. Consider sending one person inside for your household. Then take it outside! Food trucks, some vendors, and distanced seating are available outside.
Sorry, dogs are not allowed inside per Health Department regulations.
[From the Flea] There are 57 reasons you don’t want to miss out on this weekend’s Flea. If you haven’t been yet, our new stomping ground is Farm Fresh RI in Providence, a gorgeous, light-filled building that was purpose-built for markets like ours (and theirs, of course!). Find us there 11am-3pm with new and returning vendors and food trucks, hot coffee and baked goods, and plenty of room for safe, socially-distanced shopping. Free parking in two lots and free on-street parking as well. Always free admission.
While farmers market shoppers may be familiar with our Fresh Bucks token system, another federal benefit program helps keep our community farmers markets humming through the season: WIC. We’ve received data from the RI WIC office about redemption at the 2019 summer markets, and the top grower is… Daily Farm of Tiverton! Read more.
Calling all local farmers and food producers. The application is now open to sell at our summertime farmers markets for the 2021 season. Learn more and apply by March 12!
Photo from last summer’s Broad Street farmers market by Ciana Meyers/Blue December Art.
Staff Spotlight
Meet Susan Clausen
Meet Susan, our wonderful Property Manager (posing alongside one of the “animal heads” she makes in her spare time!). We asked Susan some hard-hitting questions, and this is what we learned.
What TV shows do you like to watch? I have to admit, I watch a lot on The Food Network.
What is your favorite thing to get at the Winter Market? I alway have some Rhed’s Hot Sauce and Barrett’s Garden Farmesan Cheese in the fridge!
What are you looking forward to most post-pandemic? Hanging out with friends, playing music, eating together, and visiting my 89-year-old mother.
Thank you Susan for always making our team laugh and for keeping our new building at 10 Sims running smoothly!
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 our 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. Farm Fresh is proud to be the fiscal sponsor of this truly inspirational nonprofit.
Hope’s Harvest RI Values: Because we respect the labor of our volunteers, our agency partners, and everyone involved in growing and harvesting our food, we fill gaps, solve problems, and make it easy to help each other.
Do you see a gap in your community’s food system? Have an idea? Reach out to Merl at Hope’s Harvest to collaborate.
We are seeking a Farmers Market Food Security AmeriCorps Member.This position offers an opportunity to operate Farm Fresh’s Fresh Bucks initiative at local farmers markets, creating more jobs and healthier, more resilient communities. Members must commit to a full-time 25 weeks of service, April 5 to September 26, 2021. Deadline to apply: February 24.
Local Food & Farm Virtual Events
The Sankofa Series is a monthly webinar series sharing the wisdom from past NESAWG conferences to help change the food system. Register now for “We Are Designed to Heal” with Brandy Brooks on February 23. (Fees are by donation.)
First the first time, CT NOFA and NOFA RI are joining forces to put together a remarkable, virtual, regional, organic gathering! Karen Washington will open the conference for a Friday night keynote event. The workshops will be held on the first two Saturdays of March, 9am-1pm. Registration is open.
The Northeast Farm to Institution Summit strengthens the regional food system by celebrating and supporting the role of institutions as anchors in the region. Newcomers and pioneers on the forefront of the farm to institution movement are welcome to this 100% virtual event to be held on the first three Thursdays of April: April 1, 8, 15. Registration is open.
Order fresh food from local farms and food producers on Market Mobile every Monday and Thursday. It’s like shopping at the farmers market online! Offering curbside pickup in Providence or home delivery to select areas.
Rhode Island Wintertime Farmers Markets
There are a number of local farmers markets across the state this indoor season. We will continue to provide updates as we hear of them from market managers!
Farm Fresh Winter Market
10 Sims Ave
Providence
Saturdays, 9am–1pm
Open weekly until April 24, 2021
South County Winter Market
Lazy K Ranch
71 Beaver River Rd
West Kingston, RI, 02892
Saturdays, 9am–1pm
Open weekly until April 2021 *Outside under large tents
South Kingstown Market
Independence Square (URI)
25 W. Independence Way
Kingston
Saturdays, 9am–1pm *Pre-order/pick-up style outside through April 2021
Aquidneck Growers Market
Gateway Visitors Center
23 America’s Cup Ave
Newport
Saturdays 9am–12pm
Open weekly until May 8, 2021
Mount Hope Farmers Market
250 Metacom Ave, Bristol
Open Saturdays until May 8, 2021 *In greenhouse. No Market 12/26. Pre-ordering strongly encouraged
Jan/Feb: 10am-12:30pm
Mar–May: 9am-12:30pm
Langwater Farmers Market
209 Washington St (Rte 138)
N. Easton, MA (nearby)
Saturdays 10am–2pm
Pre-ordering available
Parking lot entrances are located on Kinsley Ave and Sims Ave.
HELP FARMERS FEED RHODE ISLAND
Now more than ever your support will help our (501c3) nonprofit organization increase access to locally grown food and help farmers and food makers thrive.
Make a Donation
Your tax-deductible gift will be put right to work for the local food system.
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Choose Farm Fresh RI as your nonprofit beneficiary. Then every time you stock up online, remember to use smile.amazon.com and we’ll get a donation!
