Bolling recently started the Food Well Alliance and hired a staff developed around the fresh food movement. He emphasizes his time on the Decatur city commission is strictly temporary.
Read MoreCreative Loafing: Now hiring: City Hall's urban agriculture director→
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While Atlanta farmers pick the last tomatoes of the year and coax collard and kale seedlings out of the earth, City Hall is looking for an urban agriculture director to help put more fresh healthy food on Atlantans' tables.
Read MoreSaportaReport: Food Well Alliance celebrates its first year with Healthy Soil Festival→
/The Food Well Alliance, which was formed about a year ago, held its first major event Saturday – Healthy Soil, Healthy Community Festival – at the Truly Living Well urban farm.
Hundreds of people showed up during the festival to learn more about how to encourage and provide greater access to healthy foods – especially in communities that have been described as food deserts.
Read MoreThe Atlanta Journal‑Constitution: Free compost party in Atlanta→
/The power of good soil can make the difference between a bumper crop of tomatoes and squash or the bumper crop of frustration comes with a lackluster veggie garden.
But learning how to compost is not only a good idea for a workshop, it’s also a reason to party.
Read MoreInside Gwinnett: Food Well Alliance Launches Collaborative Initiative→
/Eight partners join to help community gardeners grow more local food through improved soil practices.
Read MoreClayton News Daily- Food Well Alliance launches collaborative initiative to revive metro Atlanta, Clayton County soil→
/For the first time in Atlanta, a food collaboration has formed to help community gardeners build healthier soil through a new Healthy Soil, Healthy Community initiative.
Read MoreFood Well Alliance hosting event to promote gardening Read more: Neighbor Newspapers - Food Well Alliance hosting event to promote gardening →
/For the first time in Atlanta, a local food collaboration has formed to help community gardeners build healthier soil through a new Healthy Soil, Healthy Community initiative.
Read MoreSoutheast Green: Food Well Alliance Launches Collaborative Initiative to Revive Metro Atlanta's Soil →
/For the first time in Atlanta, a local food collaboration has formed to help community gardeners build healthier soil through a new Healthy Soil, Healthy Community initiative.
Read MoreRELEASE: Food Well Alliance Partners with Center for Civic Innovation
/– Food Well Alliance, a nonprofit leader in building healthier communities through local food, announced today that it will partner with the Center for Civic Innovation (CCI) to launch a new Food Innovation Network.
Read MoreRELEASE: Food Well Alliance Launches Initiative to Revive Atlanta's Soil
/For the first time in Atlanta, a local food collaboration has formed to help community gardeners build healthier soil through a new Healthy Soil, Healthy Community initiative.
Read MoreAtlanta InTown: Combating Hunger Food bank creates awareness about fresh food→
/Food Well Alliance, an incubator established by the ACFB thanks to a $1 million grant from the James M. Cox Foundation, has just launched a website (foodwellalliance.org) where food movement supporters can obtain information about food production, processing and distribution, funding sources for local food businesses and stories of "opportunity makers" contributing to the movement.
Read MoreSiteworx Donates Services to Launch Robust Website for Food Well Alliance
/Website Connects People and Resources Across Metro Atlanta to Amplify and Accelerate Local Food
Movement
Read MoreAtlanta Journal Constitution: Atlanta’s food movement→
/Atlanta is growing a big opportunity right beneath our feet.
If we take a look across metro Atlanta, we increasingly find a bountiful array of food growers, educators, community organizers, nonprofits, local food entrepreneurs and investors working to address complex issues related to local food. They have become part of what we call Atlanta’s food movement.
Read MoreAtlanta Business Chronicle: Cox Foundation gives $1 million to Atlanta Community Food Bank→
/The James M. Cox Foundation gave a $1 million grant to the Atlanta Community Food Bank to start the Food Well Alliance, which will expand access to locally grown food and help build healthier, sustainable communities.
Read MoreAtlanta InTown: Atlanta Community Food Bank gets $1 million grant→
/The James M. Cox Foundation has given a $1,090,000 grant to the Atlanta Community Food Bank (ACFB) to establish and incubate Food Well Alliance, according to a media release
