Recent comments in /f/providence

UncleJimmee t1_j696x97 wrote

Reply to Next weekend, our local farm is hosting a pickling/fermented foods class and a kombucha/fun fermented drinks class. It’s a fermentation weekend with demos for hours. Also new gardening classes just added including container gardens & composting. Don't miss out, reserve your seats today! by trigablelea

for a minute there I was considering signing up and taking the bus up to Providence for this. Then I saw it's in Colchester. Thanks for sharing, but probably not the right sub for this.

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Db3ma t1_j68sxuv wrote

Reply to Next weekend, our local farm is hosting a pickling/fermented foods class and a kombucha/fun fermented drinks class. It’s a fermentation weekend with demos for hours. Also new gardening classes just added including container gardens & composting. Don't miss out, reserve your seats today! by trigablelea

(Shrug) forgive me, maybe. I was reading a sub that was titled prov and i thought it was about prov.

Its been a while but i dont remember there being many farms on the five hills.

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GoGatorsMashedTaters t1_j68r4zx wrote

Reply to comment by HotConcrete in Next weekend, our local farm is hosting a pickling/fermented foods class and a kombucha/fun fermented drinks class. It’s a fermentation weekend with demos for hours. Also new gardening classes just added including container gardens & composting. Don't miss out, reserve your seats today! by trigablelea

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines “local” as a measurable distance between food production and consumption that is four hundred miles or less.

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AttackonRetail t1_j68qw5j wrote

Reply to comment by Proof-Variation7005 in Urban Greens Co-Op is asking for $50K on GoFundMe by Anonymous_Casual

Maybe I'm crazy, but I'm not connecting the dots between financial mismanagement and the article bringing to light communucation and diversity inclusion training and pronoun misappropriation.

Does that make UG behavior right? No of course not. But I'd like to understand more about why their business model is failing because I would imagine these problems are more internal facing and customers would probably not easily catch this

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BernedTendies t1_j68qplc wrote

Reply to Urban Greens Co-Op is asking for $50K on GoFundMe by Anonymous_Casual

Only a fool or someone so incredibly rich should donate to this. This place was poorly run, but also insanely expensive for its entire existence.

I used to live a couple blocks from this place for several years, and they came in clutch as far as lines go in the early pandemic days. The part where they didn’t come in clutch was when I got laid off in March 2020 and my grocery bills went from $110/week to $170 all while having significantly less options and sometimes needing to go to a regular grocery store anyway because they’d be out of chicken, lemons, or some other super basic food you’ll be guaranteed to need in a week. Selling $10 bacon and still having money issues can only mean it’s poorly managed.

I’m sad this didn’t work out considering it’s definitely in a food desert, but maybe this will open an opportunity for someone else to give it a try in the coming years

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HotConcrete t1_j68otxy wrote

Reply to comment by Db3ma in Next weekend, our local farm is hosting a pickling/fermented foods class and a kombucha/fun fermented drinks class. It’s a fermentation weekend with demos for hours. Also new gardening classes just added including container gardens & composting. Don't miss out, reserve your seats today! by trigablelea

Not this one. “Classes will be held at our new education space at 140 Marvin Road, Colchester, CT. We also offer private lessons for groups.”

It’s our local farm as long as “local” means in Connecticut 60 miles away.

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