Farm Fresh Workers

AJ (right) is a full-time seasonal Farm Fresh worker; he was hired to work for the June to October summer season. Every Thursday, he works at the Armory Park Farm Fresh tent to help customers and vendors exchange money using their special coin system.

Mabel (left) started a one-year term this past June as an AmeriCorps VISTA worker for Farm to School and Community Education. Today, she is helping out at the Armory Park Farmers Market at the children’s station, which provides kids with a space to color and learn about different types of produce.

Raised in Brooklyn, Sam (first image, left) is a Skidmore College graduate who moved to Providence a year ago for a less “gentrified” urban environment. She started working the coin exchange stand at the Broad Street Farmers Market in June for her first season. Edith (second image, right), one of the vendors, approaches the table to cash out her tokens. Kia, another vendor, later did the same and did not want to be photographed, but consented to having her quotes included.

Both Link (left) and Martin (right) started working for Farm Fresh on July 1st. Link, who is also a divorce mediation contractor, a social worker for farmers, and a farmer himself, works at both the Neutaconkanut and Central Falls Farmers Markets. Martin, who is retired from his corporate job, only works at the Neutaconkanut Farmers Market. 

JoAnne and Andrea work the Farm Fresh tent at the Woonsocket Farmers Market, where they explain to customers the coin system as well as other available programs.