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Credit: Jeff Matteis via drone
Credit: Jeff Matteis via drone

The Pearl Street Garden Microforest

The Pearl Street Garden Collective
Providence, Rhode Island

The Pearl Street Garden microforest is a native-tree-and-shrub garden in Providence that seeks to promote biodiversity in a residential landscape. In collaboration with the Avenue Concept, the Cooperative set to work powered by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture through Groundworks USA. The site features an urban meadow, the microforest, and is meant to serve as an educational and restorative lot. More About This Project »

Use Goal: Plant production
Use Type: Microforest

Year Established: 2025
Year Ended: 2025
Duration: Permanent

Size (acres): 0.5 acre or less
Initial Cost: Unknown
Site Control: Other

Lead Organization Type: Nonprofit
Implementation Partners: Nonprofit, Private

Last updated: December 2025 – Do you have additional information about this project? Please use the share your project form » to share that information.

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