The Blitz Is On: Finding Life Among City Farm’s Vegetable Beds
In late July, the farm hosted a second BioBlitz, where nearly 20 participants scoured Pederson’s domain for signs of life.
By Frank Carini
ecoRI News staff
September 14, 2026
Excerpt:
SOUTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. — During City Farm’s inaugural BioBlitz, held this spring, participants discovered a whole new world in, under, and around the growing vegetables, the composting food scrap, the porcelain toilets and tubs holding plants, and the flower pots of all shapes, sizes, and colors.
The three-quarters-of-an-acre property on West Clifford Street, nestled among multifamily homes, is one of Rhode Island’s oldest urban farms. The operation grows, sells (at farmers markers), and donates to Hope’s Harvest and the Rhode Island Community Food Bank chemical-free produce.
Hundreds of youth, volunteers, and beginning farmers, for the past three decades, have learned about planting, growing, and harvesting at the Southside Community Land Trust (SCLT) property.
On this day in late April, about a dozen participants learned there is more life scurrying about the property than longtime farm steward Richard Pederson. Among the life spotted was a Dekay’s brownsnake, eastern carpenter bees, wild asparagus, lumpy bracket fungus, and, unfortunately, spotted lanternflies, an invasive planthopper native to Asia that damages agricultural crops and trees by piercing plant stems to feed on sap.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/the-blitz-is-on-finding-life-among-city-farms-vegetable-beds/
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