Food Well Alliance is hosting a convening with USDA to help growers navigate resources and opportunities that are available to them in metro Atlanta, as well as offer insights to help farmers connect to local and national USDA services.
Farmers who complete the training and receive certification can earn an average of $17,000 per year AND be a source of much needed healthy produce for low-income families and seniors.
Truly Living Well's Gardening 101 classes offer hands-on instruction that teach fundamental to advanced concepts for growing food where you live. The classes are given the first Saturday of every month at our East Point or Collegetown Farm locations. All classes include instruction and hands on experience, meaning that you will be getting your hands dirty.
FREE Water Testing and Employee Training Workshop hosted by Healthy Living Farm, Extension, GFVGA, Global Growers, USDA-NRCS, Cooper Ag, and Georgia Organics Each participant will receive templates and instructions on how to document for GAP/FSMA, an opportunity for a water test cost share, free lunch, and one-on-one and group consultation from Extension and GFVGA.
This six session course is offered to landowners who own 10 or more acres of land and want to learn the basics of land management. The program will discuss ways to make your land more profitable and sustainable, how to apply for USDA programs, and provide estate planning assistance. It will also address heirs property issues, record-keeping, forestry, and agricultural business management.
The 2018 Hay and Baleage Short Course will be held February 22 at the Carroll County Extension Office (Carrollton, GA). This program will focus on techniques for producing high yields of high quality hay and baleage in the Southeast.
Get your questions answered by coming out for the Farm Labor Seminars.
Chef Zu will teach you how to cook healthy, nutrition, and delicious vegan food using sustainable and seasonal ingredients that are easy to find.
Chef Zu of Kings Apron will facilitate a vegan soul food "Lasagna & Flatbread" cooking class which includes learning how to craft your very own vegan soul food style dish by using our Plantain Lasagna & Coconut Flatbread signature recipes.
From picking your planting location to fertilizing to overwintering, this class will cover all the basics you need to shepherd your baby fruit tree into a beautiful, abundant addition to your yard.
Do you have older fruit trees? Is it time for them to be pruned or thinned? Curious about funky bugs or spotting you may be finding on the tree? Join Concrete Jungle for a more in-depth class on managing fruit trees as they grow to maturity.
From picking your planting location to fertilizing to overwintering, this class will cover all the basics you need to shepherd your baby fruit tree into a beautiful, abundant addition to your yard.
Truly Living Well's “Using Natures Tools - Mound Building” class will focus on mound building for sustainable production.
Join Bellina Alimentari for a guided tasting of five Italian wines with Wine Concierge Kelly of Cork in the Road. The class will focus on the unique native Italian varietals made with a zero intervention natural approach. Spaces are limited, so reserve your seat today.
Discover the art behind making the perfect risotto during Bellina Alimentari’s Winter Risotto Making class.
Gardening year round is easy and rewarding in our mild Georgia Piedmont region climate. Learn how to select the best available location using key factors for success. We will cover efficient use of the space that you have available to maximize your vegetable production.
Come prepared to learn about benefits & challenges of raw manure use relative to the safety of fresh fruit & vegetable production as well as gain a better understanding of current FDA research & risk assessment efforts.
This workshop is designed to introduce growers to principles and practices of vegetable crop production and provide information needed to grow and manage a vegetable garden.
Join The Celtic Gardener, Anne-Marie Anderson, for Homestead Atlanta's popular chicken crash course. This class will cover legislation, coop design, breed selection, care and feeding. You will also receive a resource list of local chicken groups, vets, chick and feed sources.
Come learn not only what is happening within the soils around your own region and how to best support them, but also why soil as an ecosystem has the power to save our Planet.
Truly Living Well's Gardening 101 classes offer hands-on instruction that teach fundamental to advanced concepts for growing food where you live. The classes are given the first Saturday of every month at our East Point or Collegetown Farm locations. All classes include instruction and hands on experience, meaning that you will be getting your hands dirty!
The National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC), in partnership with the National Farmers Union, is proud to offer workshops across the country to help familiarize young and beginning farmers with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Ag's August class, “Planning a Bountiful Fall Garden” focuses on preparing a productive fall garden. Setting gardeners up to enjoy cool weather crops all season.
New Communities, Global Growers, Common Market Georgia and the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association present On-Farm GAP & Food Safety Workshops. The workshops will focus on practical farm infrastructure for small and limited-resource farms, packhouse management and wholesaler requirements for packaging.
For summer 2017 UGA Extension is offering an intensive two-day workshop designed for the school garden challenges of Georgia’s teaching professionals. Join us this June to upgrade your gardening skills, increase the use of the garden in your classroom, and network with other professionals.
For summer 2017 UGA Extension is offering an intensive two-day workshop designed for the school garden challenges of Georgia’s teaching professionals. Join us this June to upgrade your gardening skills, increase the use of the garden in your classroom, and network with other professionals.
Learn more about our 2017 Community Garden Grant funding priorities and how to navigate the application process.
Learn to integrate gardening and cooking activities into the elementary classroom to provide hands-on, exploratory learning opportunities that enhance student understanding of academic standards.
The Composting Council Research and Education Foundation (CCREF), working with experts from programs across the country, is offering a week -long course focusing on the knowledge and skills you need to do just that.
Learn about our 2017 Local Food Grant, which is investing $350,000 in placed-based collaborations and systemic solutions for Metro Atlanta's local food system.
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.
Are you organizing a local food event in the Atlanta area that you'd like to see here on our site? Tell us about it! Approved events will be featured on our calendar.
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, chair of Cox Enterprises, 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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