the ice cream shop for CSA members to pick up.
All the produce is grown using organic and regenerative practices. CSA members have access to weekly yoga sessions in the summer and fall and pick-your-own opportunities during peak season. Spring sees produce like lettuce, carrots and rosemary harvested while summer is for cucumbers, sweet corn and blueberries.
The farm also offers various classes and works closely with the African Alliance of Rhode Island, which runs the six-acre Bami Farm in Johnston.
Aidan Simmons, the farm’ s goat caretaker, waves at me as I park. She’ s a twelfth-generation dairy farmer and second-generation goat farmer. In 2024, after learning her family could not continue operating Simmons Farm in Middletown, Simmons found a new home at Gather. Since then, she’ s worked to perfect the farm’ s goat hikes and goat cuddling sessions.
She leads me through the greenhouse, which doubles as the property’ s event space. Here, Simmons and Gather farmer Elisabeth Stone tell me about their efforts to make the goat hikes more accessible for all.
“ It’ s important we make the hikes doable for all people,” says Simmons.“ The hiking trail is mostly flat, so even if you aren’ t completely mobile you can
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Aidan Simmons leads hikers and her goats through the hiking trails on the Gather Farm property.
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