Georgia is a great location for PREP because of the people who live here. They have embraced small food entrepreneurs, and as a result, have brought a proliferation of locally grown and producedfoods available throughout Georgia.
Read MoreAtlanta is joining a national shift among metropolitan regions toward healthy livable communities and away from previous growth patterns that produced costly sprawl,blight and food deserts.
Read MoreBolling 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 MoreWhile 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 MoreThe 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 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 MoreEight partners join to help community gardeners grow more local food through improved soil practices.
Read MoreFor 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 MoreFor 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 MoreFor 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 More– 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 MoreFor 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 MoreFood 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 MoreWebsite Connects People and Resources Across Metro Atlanta to Amplify and Accelerate Local Food
Movement
Read MoreAtlanta 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 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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