As a farmers market shopper, you’re probably already reducing your single-use plastic consumption, but did you know there’s a new business in town that helps you further reduce your reliance on plastics?
To begin our new monthly “Did You Know?” segment, we’re highlighting The ReFill on 42 Spring Street in Newport, a business that offers customers the ability to reuse and refill containers with household cleaning and personal care products.
Blue sky, a paw paw story, and a question →
Ten years ago, Meredith and Jason Spitalnik, with their band of merry gardeners, planted the first trees in what would become a food, or edible forest at Island Community Farm, the first of now seven garden spaces that Aquidneck Community Table (ACT) stewards.
This fall, we are excited to harvest the first pawpaws and persimmons from our food forest after years of patient nurture and waiting. These first fruits are a cause for celebration, and an example of the planning and determination required to change not only a farm landscape, but also the food system within which farming practices live…
Are you up for a challenge? →
Now is a great time to give: an anonymous donor has offered to match new and increased donations to ACT’s programs through a generous challenge grant! ACT will not receive the match unless we reach $25,000 by October 1st. It's a big goal, but we are already half way there!
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