New program helps East Point families donate food waste to grow healthy vegetables - Fox 5
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One metro Atlanta city is giving families a way to help grow healthier food in their community without getting their hands dirty themselves. The City of East Point is starting a two-year-long pilot program that will let residents compost their food waste and turn it into soil for local farmers.
The program is between the City of East Point, the Food Well Alliance, and CompostNow. Families can divert their food waste from landfills by instead dropping it off at four different areas throughout the city.
"This is an amazing partnership because of the potential it has to continue to strengthen our sustainability work. But more importantly to empower our residents and have our residents be a part of something so critical as the food that they eat." East Point Mayor Dena Holiday Ingraham said.
Tenisio Seanima helped create the program. He is the Urban Agriculture Manager for the city and also runs a local farm called Nature's Candy.
