Rhode Island Feeds

This is part of the "Plant Providence: Growing Food in the City" series of workshops, open houses and celebrations organized by The Providence Urban Agriculture Task Force.

Now celebrating its 200-year anniversary, this unique stone mansion was built with lottery winnings in 1810. Tours provided by docents in period costume. Numerous antiques and textiles on exhibit. Admission $4; children free.

Location: Lincoln, RI

Over 70 art vendors and live music. Free Admission. Slater Memorial Park, Armistice Blvd.

Location: Pawtucket, RI

Slater Mill 2010 Gallery Series highlights work in fiber arts and fine craft continuing the mission of the Mill's Jencks Education Center and Community Guild Studios and the Slater Mill collection. The Slater Mill Gallery is located at the Visitor Center, downtown Pawtucket.

Location: Pawtucket, RI

Join us on our first-ever urban hike! We'll stroll through the streets of southern Providence and visit a few of the 13 neighborhood-based community gardens in the Southside Community Land Trust (SCLT). We may even be able to harvest some of the vegetables! After the hike, please join us for lunch at the Friendship Cafe, which serves some of the food produced in the gardens. (Each person is responsible for purchasing her own items.)

SWAP (Stop Wasting Abandoned Property) community room, 500 Broad St, Providence, RI
Saturday, Sep 11, 2010, 10:15am – 12pm

Join us on our first-ever urban hike! We'll stroll through the streets of southern Providence and visit a few of the 13 neighborhood-based community gardens in the Southside Community Land Trust (SCLT). We may even be able to harvest some of the vegetables! After the hike, please join us for lunch at the Friendship Cafe, which serves some of the food produced in the gardens. (Each person is responsible for purchasing her own items.)

More info: rifamiliesinnature.org

Crafts people and artists, plus farmers sell their creations and produce at Lippitt Park (north end of Blackstone Blvd), Providence, RI.

Together we are working towards one goal – to give Providence a unique casual meeting place where you can shop for art, healthy edibles, handbags, jewelry, accessories and much more.

A family fun day...great food, games, crafts,entertainment, exhibitors

Swoop into Bristol for the largest celebration of raptors in New England. Eagles, hawks, falcons and owls - the hunters of the avian world - will be featured in live flight presentations, educational programs, and activities for bird enthusiasts of all ages. Programs throughout the weekend include entertaining and educational activities for families.

A self-guided walking tour of private gardens in historic Newport, Rhode Island.

Purchase tickets "at the door" or save $5 per ticket by ordering in advance (June 1 for the Summer Tour and September 1 for the Fall Tour). Tour details to be posted.

* To Purchase Ticket(s) on the Day of the Tour
Tickets may be purchased for $25 at the Newport Visitors' Center at 23 America's Cup Avenue (cash or credit card), or at the main ticket office at 33 Washington Street (Summer Tour only) and Kingscote Mansion at 253 Bellevue Avenue (Fall Tour only) (cash, personal check and credit card accepted).

* To Purchase Ticket(s) in Advance --
SAVE $5
You may purchase tickets in advance by calling (401) 847-0514 or by clicking on the "Purchase Ticket" buttons below to order securely online. Order early and your tickets will be mailed to you.
* When You Arrive
Turn your ticket in at the ticket office desk at 33 Washington Street (Summer Tour only) and Kingscote Mansion at 253 Bellevue Avenue (Fall Tour only) and you will be given a program with a map and directions to each of the gardens. Your ticket will be honored for the purchaser on any or all days of the tour, allowing for inclement weather, schedule conflicts, or just a late start.
To Purchase Ticket(s) in Advance -- SAVE $5
You may purchase tickets in advance by calling (401) 847-0514 or by clicking on the "Purchase Ticket" buttons below to order securely online. Order early and your tickets will be mailed to you.

When You Arrive
Turn your ticket in at the ticket office desk at 33 Washington Street (Spring Tour only) and Kingscote Mansion at 253 Bellevue Avenue (Fall Tour only) and you will be given a program with a map and directions to each of the gardens. Your ticket will be honored for the purchaser on any or all days of the tour, allowing for inclement weather, schedule conflicts, or just a late start. Questions? Please visit our FAQs page: www.secretgardentours.org…

Celebrate French Canada culture with music and dance, puppet show, arts and crafts, open air marketplace, historic tours of nearby Downtown and Apple Pie Contest. Event at River Island Park, Market Square. Marketeer's Recpetion at 5:30 pm location TBA.

Location: Woonsocket, RI

Providence Water will be conducting its third and final field tour of 2010 in the Tunk Hill area of the watershed forest property on the west side of the reservoir in Scituate. A central theme of the walk will be white-tailed deer and the their impacts on the landscape. Providence Water has partnered with Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management to establish a Cooperative Deer Management Area on this wooded peninsula covering about 1,000 acres and surrounded by water on three sides. Through a permitting system, deer will be hunted for the first time on Providence Water land starting this fall. We will visit some small deer exclosures and talk about how they can be used in monitoring deer impacts as part of a vegetation monitoring program being set up by Thomas Rawinski, a botanist with the U.S. Forest Service. We will also look at a variety of non-native invasive plants and talk about different approaches to managing them. Other stops will include white pine and oak stands where we will discuss how overabundant deer are impacting them.

Reservations are required to join the field tour and can be made by registering online at the Providence Water website (www.provwater.com) or by calling Forest Supervisor Christopher Riely at (401) 521-6300 x 7313. An email address or phone number for each participant group is required in case it is necessary to contact registrants with additional information regarding the event. Both adults and children are welcome, but no pets please. The length of the walk is approximately 2 miles over rolling terrain and participants should wear sturdy shoes and dress appropriately for being outdoors.

We will meet at 9:00 AM on the east side of Tunk Hill Road (Route 12) at a gated entrance to the Providence Water property between telephone poles numbered 153-84 and 154-84, 0.5 mile north of the intersection with Matteson Road and 1.3 miles south of the intersection with Old Plainfield Pike. Participants will need to sign a liability release. In case of heavy rain, the field tour will be cancelled. Registrants will be notified if the event is postponed with an email or phone call by 4 PM on Friday, September 10.

The public watershed lands near the Scituate Reservoir are closed to unauthorized access for security reasons.

Rt 12, Tunk Hill Rd, Scituate, RI
Saturday, Sep 11, 2010, 9am – 12pm

Providence Water will be conducting its third and final field tour of 2010 in the Tunk Hill area of the watershed forest property on the west side of the reservoir in Scituate. A central theme of the walk will be white-tailed deer and the their impacts on the landscape. Providence Water has partnered with Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management to establish a Cooperative Deer Management Area on this wooded peninsula covering about 1,000 acres and surrounded by water on three sides. Through a permitting system, deer will be hunted for the first time on Providence Water land starting this fall. We will visit some small deer exclosures and talk about how they can be used in monitoring deer impacts as part of a vegetation monitoring program being set up by Thomas Rawinski, a botanist with the U.S. Forest Service. We will also look at a variety of non-native invasive plants and talk about different approaches to managing them. Other stops will include white pine and oak stands where we will discuss how overabundant deer are impacting them.

Reservations are required to join the field tour and can be made by registering online at the Providence Water website (www.provwater.com) or by calling Forest Supervisor Christopher Riely at (401) 521-6300 x 7313. An email address or phone number for each participant group is required in case it is necessary to contact registrants with additional information regarding the event. Both adults and children are welcome, but no pets please. The length of the walk is approximately 2 miles over rolling terrain and participants should wear sturdy shoes and dress appropriately for being outdoors.

We will meet at 9:00 AM on the east side of Tunk Hill Road (Route 12) at a gated entrance to the Providence Water property between telephone poles numbered 153-84 and 154-84, 0.5 mile north of the intersection with Matteson Road and 1.3 miles south of the intersection with Old Plainfield Pike. Participants will need to sign a liability release. In case of heavy rain, the field tour will be cancelled. Registrants will be notified if the event is postponed with an email or phone call by 4 PM on Friday, September 10.

The public watershed lands near the Scituate Reservoir are closed to unauthorized access for security reasons.

More info: www.provwater.com…