What are the opening hours?

Monday 9am - 5pm Tuesday 9am - 5pm Wednesday 9am - 5pm Thursday 9am - 5pm Friday 9am - 5pm

Southside Community Land Trust

Home
United States
Providence, RI
Southside Community Land Trust

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.

06/04/2026

It’s opening day at the Armory Park Farmers Market!

Starting this afternoon and every Thursday through October, SCLT network farmers Ada’s Farm, Charlotte’s Farm, City Farm, Greenleaf Farm, L***a Farm, Marie’s Farm, Natural Foods, Seraphina’s Farm, Teo’s Products, and Zera’s Farm will be at the Dexter Training Grounds from 3-7pm.

These are small-scale farmers and market gardeners who planted the seeds, tended the crops, and will be loading the van this morning. Shopping with them keeps food dollars in the local economy, supports the growers who keep Providence’s food system stocked with fresh, nutritious, and culturally familiar produce, and gets you something far better than anything on a supermarket shelf.

Early June at the market means tender lettuce, arugula, chard, green onions, and fresh herbs including cilantro, parsley, and mint. You may also catch purple asparagus and edible flowers, depending on what’s ready. Plant starts, baby veggie and herb plants ready to take home and grow, will also be on hand. And don’t miss Teo’s Products for the best honey in the state.

Of course, catch these City Farm legends every week!

SNAP/EBT accepted. Farm Fresh RI’s Bonus Bucks program doubles your SNAP dollars on fresh fruits and vegetables. See you at Armory Park!

06/02/2026

If you've walked past 404 Broad Street lately, you may have noticed a new sign by our front door. It's part of a storytelling project by Trinity Square Together, a coalition of organizations, small businesses, faith communities, local government, and neighbors working to invest in this stretch of Upper South Providence and connect it to its own history.

Trinity Square is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been one of Providence's most culturally significant corridors for generations. TST brings together the people and organizations who are rooted here to work on streetscape improvements, community events, and projects like these signs, which tell the story of a place that has a lot of story to tell.

SCLT has deep roots here. We started our first community garden in '81 just a couple blocks away. We moved into our rehabbed space at 404 Broad in 2022, and we're proud to be among TST's community partners. City Farm, the 404 Broad Healthy Food Hub, and Youth Enterprise Farm are all right here in this neighborhood.

Come walk Broad Street, find the signs and scan a code. Learn about this place from the people who love it.

06/01/2026

🗣 Last call for applications!

Before we wrap up our search for a Food Access Associate, we have to shout out everyone who liked, shared, and reposted our call for candidates over the past couple of weeks. You helped us connect with some genuinely great applicants so far!

Southside Community Land Trust's Healthy Food Access programs reach thousands of food insecure Rhode Islanders every year, through free farm stands, our VeggieRx program with local healthcare providers, and food access initiatives with community partners across Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, Cranston, and Woonsocket. Every week, we work with farmers to deliver hundreds of shares of free, fresh, nutritionally dense, locally grown produce to neighbors who need it. The seasonal Food Access Associate will be right there making it happen.

The position runs July through mid-November, up to 25 hours a week, at $20 to $23 an hour. Bilingual candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. If this sounds like your kind of summer, don't sleep on it!

Full job description and application details at https://bit.ly/FoodAccessAssoc

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!

Address

404 Broad Street
Providence, RI
02907

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+14012739419

Website

http://southsideclt.org/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Southside Community Land Trust posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Organization

Send a message to Southside Community Land Trust:

Shortcuts

Address
Telephone
Opening Hours
Alerts
Contact The Organization
Claim ownership or report listing

Want your organization to be the top-listed Non Profit Organization in Providence?