This time of year is typically filled with plenty of family gatherings and a lot of cooking. That can also mean a lot of food waste. Those scraps can also help local farmers put more food on your table. Good Day's Lindsay Tuman got an inside look at the partnership helping turn your trash into a nourishing treasure.
Read MoreThe city of East Point, in partnership with CompostNow and nonprofit Food Well Alliance, is launching a free, first-of-its-kind food waste drop-off program for residents.
Read MoreNext week, the City of East Point will kick off its city-wide community compost program, the first in the metro area. The city is partnering with CompostNow and Food Well Alliance to offer this free drop-off program for residents.
Read MoreA composting pilot program in one community is giving back to local farmers and in turn you at home.
Read MoreOne 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.
Read MoreEast Point’s first Agriculture Plan focuses on urban farming and prioritizing equitable access to healthy foods.
Read MoreThe City of East Point has become the first in the Atlanta area to adopt a city agriculture plan following a unanimous vote at their April 19 meeting.
Read MoreWorking to build and support urban farms and gardens across Metro Atlanta since 2016, Food Well Alliance is now looking to implement the city's first agriculture Plan in East Point.
Read MoreFood Well Alliance received a $250 thousand grant from the US Department of Agriculture to create the Atlanta area’s first city agriculture plans.
Read MoreThe City of East Point partnered with local food collaborative, Food Well Alliance and Metro Atlanta Urban Farm to create the ‘Bucket Brigade’ on Friday, April 17, 2020.
Read MoreIn partnership with Food Well Alliance and Metro Atlanta Urban Farms, East Point City leaders deliver 50 bucket gardens to food-insecure families
Read MoreEast Point, the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC), and Food Well Alliance (a nonprofit that supports community-driven agriculture and urban food systems) recently completed six months of community engagement that culminated in the selection of a Steering Committee comprised of three community-appointed delegates and seven city-appointed delegates. It is now the steering committee’s goal to work with ARC and Food Well Alliance on the planning phase of the project.
Read MoreEAST POINT, Ga. — The newly appointed steering committee for the City Agricultural Plan held its first meeting in East Point last night at the ArtsXChange.
Read MoreIn August, East Point was selected as the pilot location for a plan to prioritize urban agriculture. Atlanta-based nonprofit Food Well Alliance, which is a collaborative network of local food leaders, is heading up the new program called the City Agricultural Plan. Guided by the planning expertise of the Atlanta Regional Commission, the goal is connect thriving community gardens and urban farms in order to provide greater access to locally grown food across the metro Atlanta Region.
Read MoreEast 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 from Food Well Alliance to develop metro Atlanta’s first city agriculture plan.
Read MoreFood 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, 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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