Promoting Local and Healthy Food

Providence has always been a city with a deep connection with its food. With Johnson and Wales University, a premier culinary institution, providing the backbone of this city's food culture, there is push to bring food culture and food production into the foreground of Providence's sustainable future.


For more information, please check out the following food related topics:

• Community Gardens
  
  
• Food Day is a national event to bring people together to push for healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable and humane way.
  
  
• For those City Employees who enroll, the Veggie Day program delivers fresh produce directly to City Hall from local farms each week - increasing the convenience of buying well priced and healthy options for employees and their families.
  
  
• Johnson and Wales University teaches their students about Food Sustainability. For information on this course and links to related articles click here for a link to their library page, Johnson and Wales Food Sustainability.
  
  
• The Rhode Island Food Council creates partnerships, develops policies, and advocates for improvements to the local food system to increase its sustainability.
  
  
• Farm Fresh RI is a network of local food producers and distributers whose goal is to increase access to local food sources, preserve Rhode Island farmland, and improve food production's impact on the environment.