Leafy Greens in the City Scene
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Providence, Rhode Island— The Ocean State might be the size of some counties in other parts of the country, but it’s big on going green. A local food co-op in Providence has been bringing fresh, local produce to its capital city dwellers for nigh on ten years now.
Urban greens is a food cooperative on Providence’s West Side with a mission to provide simple, direct access to affordable, local, natural products and to offer a community-based alternative to corporate supermarkets. The cooperative is guided by its values of equal access, local agriculture, local economy, co-operative principles, community partnerships and social entrepreneurship.
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An even higher level of awesomeness dawns when you find out that it’s all held together by a volunteer-run buying club that currently provides a full range of groceries through biweekly orders. Currently, they process orders and display their wares online at www.urbangreens.com. Rumor has it that in the interest of making the cooperative buying model more accessible to the entire community they are working on opening a cooperative market to replace the online buying club and to give a storefront face to this community of online organic food geeks.
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