East Point works to boost residents’ health - Atlanta Journal Constitution

East Point is working toward becoming not only a place to access healthy food, but a place where healthy food is grown. Already, Truly Living Well and Working Hands Enterprises are farming land in East Point. And, the city recently received a grant to develop metro Atlanta’s first city agriculture plan.

The grant comes from Food Well Alliance, an Atlanta nonprofit that partnered with the Atlanta Regional Commission to create a program to bring growers, community leaders and city officials together to find ways to implement urban agriculture in their community.

“We see this program as an incentive for cities to take the long view in planning food access and urban agriculture in their spaces,” said Kim Karris, executive director of Food Well Alliance. “We envision cities planning for food-producing spaces in the same way they plan for green space for parks.”

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