Davy Andrade News Today

“We’re growing a small business and learning as we go,” said Claire Bowen as she arranged bushels of sweet and charmingly imperfect organic apples on a late-September afternoon. “We hope to cultivate connections between local farms and local tables.”

The farm stands, art galleries and land-conservation efforts in the East Bay region show why fall is the golden season in the Ocean State.

On a late-summer weekday afternoon, the phone rings inside Andrade’s Catch seafood market in Bristol, and a customer is on the line, thinking about what to prepare for dinner that night. The Andrade family expanded Andrade's Catch seafood market by adding more work and retail space, while continuing to work directly with local fishermen for over thirty-six years.