Park Pride is Hiring a Director of Park Visioning
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Park Pride is looking for a new Director of Park Visioning. Do you have the perfect sight to take the organization to the next level?
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Food Oasis is Offering Scholarships to the Georgia Organics Conference
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The scholarship will cover a two-day educational pass for Friday, February 26 and Saturday, February 27.
Read MoreApply for Georgia Organics Conference Golden Radish Partial Scholarship
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Georgia Organics' Farm to School program will be offering a limited number of partial scholarships for the conference.
Read MoreApply for the 2016 HABESHA Works Program
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HABESHA Works is a green jobs training initiative that teaches basic skills in urban organic agriculture and agro-business development.
Read MoreThe Wylde Center is Hiring
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The Wylde Center is hiring a Public Programs Manager, review the requirements and directions to apply.
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The Common Market Georgia is Hiring→
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TCMG has a job opening for Farm Sourcing Coordinator. This position requires an individual who can work closely with farmers to assess and promote production, post-harvest handling and market strategies that are viable for small farmers supplying the wholesale market. The full description is attached.
Read MoreALFI Orchard Project is accepting recipient sites for 2015-2016
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Garden sites have until Jan. 20, 2016 to apply as Orchard Project recipient sites. Donations will be based on available varieties of fruit trees, vines and berry bushes and available space at each site.
Read MoreGoizueta is Hiring: Microbusiness Acceleration Program Associate→
/Are you a recent graduate who is looking to make inroads into the social enterprise sector?
Join the Social Enterprise @ Goizueta team as a Start:ME Program Associate.
Register Your Class for UGA's Pizza Farm
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Bring your 4th and 5th grade classes to the UGA Pizza Farm for fun, food and fitness.
Read MoreFood Innovation Network Sparks Up Exciting Convo
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During the launch event, attendees got a chance to register for the network, meet like-minded entrepreneurs, and participate in networking activities to help members learn more about each other.
Read MoreSoil Festival: Celebration for Healthy Soil in Community Gardens
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The Healthy Soil Festival was the perfect consummation of all the collective building we coalesced with community garden leaders over the past year.
Read MoreExciting Urban Ag Opportunity with The City of Atlanta
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The newly-announced Atlanta Urban Agriculture Director position will help urban growers navigate the city's land access, permitting, code compliance and assist with other challenges facing growers within the city.
Read MoreThe Center for Civic Innovation's Rohit Malhotra Becomes an Echoing Green Fellow
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Global nonprofit Echoing Green today announced that Atlanta native Rohit Malhotra has been awarded a highly competitive and coveted Fellowship for his work as the founder and executive director of the Center for Civic Innovation.
Read MoreReconnecting Families Seeks Community Garden Program Manager
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Reconnecting Families is currently seeking a part-time Community Garden Program Manager, who will manage the garden and gardening program.
Read MoreFive Days Left To Fund Concrete Jungle's Tree Parent Program
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Your donation will help Concrete Jungle create our Tree Parent programming to tend to the 2,500 fruit trees around the city we have mapped, create educational material, and their first-ever Director!
Read MoreIs 2015 The Year Soil Becomes Climate Change’s Hottest Topic?
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2015 is shaping up to be a big year for soil — in addition to being Global Soil Week’s third year running, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has declared it the International Year of Soil.
Read MoreA Bee Farm in Atlanta's Backyard
/Jenna Mobley local food and environmental educator is leading a swarm of bees at Springdale Park Elementary in Virginia Highlands. Learn more on the Virginia Highlands Civic Association's blog site.
On May 6, we heard there was a swarm of bees at Springdale Park Elementary (SPARK), then heard that they were part of the school’s garden center. So, where did we go? Over to watch Jon the beekeeper sort out what was happening. He wasn’t 100% sure but believed the colony had grown too large so some bees were leaving to start another colony. In this case “the defectors” gathered temporarily in a nearby tree, and then returned to swarm around the old hive. Jon set up another hive to encourage formation of the second colony. He moved the queen to the new hive along with some of the other bees and now he’ll just keep an eye on how it goes. Jon is quick to note the extensive benefits of honey bees, and points out that they are not aggressive. SPARK is very careful regarding both the care of the bees and the safety of the students.
Caylor works to establish a second colony for the swarming SPARK bees.
If you think this is fascinating – and who wouldn’t? – jump on over to SPARK’s Garden Center website to learn more. The center’s headed up by Jenna Mobley, SPARK’s Environmental Science teacher…and many energetic kids are actively engaged. You’ll also find more stories about Jon Caylor, a fifth generation beekeeper, who says that beekeeping is a hobby. He’s actually completing his graduate degree in organizational development at Mercer. Don’t you imagine he can draw some parallels between the organizational structure of businesses and bee colonies?
Contribute to the Interactive Food Movement Timeline
/The Small Planet Institute created a timeline of the food movement, with the help of leading figures in the food movement!
Read MoreRegister for UGA's School Garden Teacher Training
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Don't miss an opportunity to lead an educational garden at your local school! Register for UGA Center for Urban Agriculture's School Garden Teacher Training.
Read MoreSubmit a Pitch for Potluck & Pitch, Round 2!
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Georgia Food Oasis is excited to announce their next Potluck & Pitch will be happening on June 25 from 6-9 PM at the Food Bank.
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