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New City Garden Provides Food and Jobs

PROVIDENCE — A community garden can be more than a neighborhood lot for growing tomatoes. In the case of a new public garden in Federal Hill, a revamped parking lot now serves as a classroom and job-training center.

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Backyard Farms Grow City’s Food Supply

PROVIDENCE — It took about 5 tons of organic material and a good chunk of time during the last growing season to improve the soil on his seven-eighths of an acre lot, but this year urban farmer Than Wood is ready to grow some serious food.

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City Farm Talks Chicken

PROVIDENCE — City Farm’s six chickens scratched nervously inside their coop, alternately glamming for and cowing from the growing crowd of people streaming into the farm ready to learn about all things chicken.

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