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Check out recent news on the work ALT and partners have been up to as well as general farm happenings on Aquidneck Island and within Rhode Island.

Aquidneck Land Trust creates a farm marketplace

Mercury | March 8, 2018
ALT establishes FarmLink Aquidneck as new resource for local farmers.

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Sweet Berry Farm is a 2017 recipient of agricultural adventures award

sweetberryfarmri.com | August 1, 2017
We have been granted the 2017 Agricultural Adventurers Award by The New England Fellowship of Agricultural Adventurers.

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Working the Land – Couple operates farm on Aquidneck Land Trust property

The Newport Daily News | June 29, 2017
Jim and Michelle Garman harvest kale for their CSA customers at their Middletown farm.

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Forgotten Farms, film featuring Louis and Jane Escobar

portsmouthpress.com | February 26, 2017
Louis Escobar wanted to be a dairy farmer. I’ve lived my life dream,” says Louis Escobar for new documentary film, Forgotten Farms.

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Group promotes farmland leasing

The Westerly Sun | November 12, 2016
Tess Brown-Lavoie of Land For Good spoke at a workshop for landowners at the South Kingstown Land Trust Barn.

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Saving the R.I. Farm: Programs would help beginning farmers buy land at a steep discount

Providence Journal | September 5, 2016
According to the DEM, the state has lost 80 percent of its farmland since 1940, more than anywhere else in the nation over the same period.

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Portsmouth Christmas tree farmer, 81, vows to keep it in the family

Providence Journal | June 18, 2016
George Thurston’s farm isn’t fancy. Weeds clog the rows of Christmas trees. Brush covers the hill above the pond.

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Providence farmer to help address Rhode Island’s growing needs for farmland access and transfer

Land for Good | June 15, 2016
Addressses growing needs of Rhode Island farmers for access to land, support for farm succession and transfer…

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New Partnership Acts to Increase Island’s Food Security

EcoRI News | May 4, 2016
There’s a small food revolution happening here, thanks in part to a newly formed organization called Aquidneck Community Table.

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Small Farms Growing in Rhode Island

EcoRI News | February 20, 2014
Small farms and farming are on the rise in Rhode Island and across New England…

Almy-Thurston Farm Short Film

Portsmouth Farmer George Thurston tells the history of his family Christmas tree farm in Portsmouth and his partnership with the Aquidneck Land Trust.

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