Food Well Alliance and the Atlanta Regional Commission announced Chattahoochee Hills and Palmetto as the awardees for the 2026 Local Food System Plan, with a $100,000 grant for each city.
Read MoreHundreds show up to learn how to grow and nurture their home gardens at annual Soil Festival, hosted by Food Well Alliance and our Family 2 Family partners.
Read MoreThe City of Norcross is celebrating new support for Norcross Discovery Garden Park after the community space was selected as a 2026 Community Garden Improvement Grant recipient by Food Well Alliance.
Read MoreFood Well Alliance awards $100K to Chattahoochee Hills and Palmetto to expand local food access. Sarah Brown explains how communities will shape plans.
Read MoreThe Food Well Alliance and the city of Clarkston worked together to create a local food system plan to provide greater access to healthy food options and entrepreneurial opportunities.
Read MoreTwo south metro communities will work together over the next year to develop a plan aimed at strengthening local food production and access.
Read MoreFood Well Alliance is an Atlanta-based nonprofit with a straightforward mission: to provide resources and support to local growers while helping build healthier, more connected communities. Learn about new updates with Local Food System Planning on WABE’s Closer Look.
Read MoreThe garden at Marietta Middle School now bursts with sage, lemon balm, peppers and other herbs, but the bright space in the building’s center was not always this way.
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In the fourth episode, available above or wherever you get your podcasts, Erica Kratofil, co-executive director of The Giving Grove; Linda Appel Lipsius, executive director of Denver Urban Gardens; and Kate Conner, executive director of Food Well Alliance join Katie McDaniel, associate editor of Nursery Management, to talk about how the U.S. federal budget cuts are affecting their organizations, why these cuts should matter to the horticulture industry and the long-term impacts on both their organizations and the industry if funding remains uncertain.
Food insecurity has long been a cause that Braves vice president of community affairs and executive director of the Braves Foundation Danielle Bedasse has championed.
“One in three kids in the United States of America go to school hungry,” she said. “The prevalence of food insecurity is rampant. … It’s working poor, middle-class families that can’t afford to feed their children. There is just an increase in cost and prices, but the accessibility of organic or locally grown food is an issue.
Kat Moriarty shares how Atlanta’s community gardeners are helping feed food-insecure families through Food Well Alliance’s “Plant a Row for the Hungry.” With over 100,000 pounds donated last year, this grassroots effort is making a big impact.
The Atlanta Braves and Major League Baseball teamed up with several organizations to unveil a new community garden on Saturday morning.
The garden is at the undeveloped Leila Valley apartment site in southeast Atlanta.
It is expected to produce thousands of pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables every year.
Food Well’s Compost Connectors program featured in documentary that covers landfills and the things we throw away.
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Atlanta Housing is partnering with a local nonprofit to provide access to fresh fruits and vegetables in a community where it plans to build residential units.
The latest: Atlanta Housing and Food Well Alliance are teaming up to open the Leila Valley Community Farm.
Even beyond the 2025 MLB All-Star Game, Major League Baseball, along with the Atlanta Braves and the Atlanta Braves Foundation, are looking to leave a lasting impression on the local community following the big event at Truist Park in July.
The groups, along with Braves community partners, are combining to invest more than $4 million into community projects for baseball and softball opportunities for youth, as well as support for veterans and sustainable food and farming to underserved communities.
Food Well Alliance: We are connecting organizations that are working to make metro Atlanta's local food system resilient, including production, processing, distribution, consumption and recovery.
The creation of Food Well Alliance was made possible through funding from the founding benefactor, the James M. Cox Foundation, and through the vision of Jim Kennedy—Chairman Emeritus of Cox Enterprises and Chairman of the James M. Cox Foundation—and Bill Bolling, founder of the Atlanta Community Food Bank. Together, they saw an opportunity to build healthier communities across metro Atlanta by supporting and connecting members of our local food movement. Today, we support more than 300 community gardens, urban farms, and orchards in the Atlanta region.
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