EAST 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 MoreAs the first phase of City Agriculture Planning comes to an end, residents of East Point select community leaders for the Steering Committee, who will work with the city and Atlanta Regional Commission to create an agriculture plan for East Point.
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 has officially kicked off the planning process for the first ever City Agricultural Plan in East Point. The plan aims to protect and expand urban farming and gardens as well as put community ideas into action as rapid development continues in the metro-Atlanta area.
Read More“East point is the first city in metro Atlanta to develop a city agriculture plan!”
Those words echoed through the room at the ArtsXchange in East Point as Kim Karris, executive director of Food Well Alliance, made the announcement.
Read MoreFood Well Alliance brings City Agriculture Planning to the City of East Point.
Read MoreWhen Food Well Alliance was founded in 2015, the number of community gardens, urban farms, and farmers markets across metro Atlanta was noticeably on the rise. The recognition of disparities in access to healthy food and its connection to chronic, diet-related disease had reached national attention. And at the same time, the concept of a “local food movement” was now commonly used to describe a growing trend of consumers and farmers promoting locally grown food as an environmental alternative to industrial, chemically-intensive agriculture.
Read MoreWhole Foods partnered with Atlanta nonprofit Food Well Alliance to raise and donate $45,105 to the Resource Center for Urban Agriculture. On April 18, all 11 Atlanta area Whole Foods stores donated 5 percent of the net sales to the cause as part of the natural grocer’s semi-annual Community Giving Day.
Read MoreTo celebrate the love of gardening, Carol Hunter, Executive Director of Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture, and J. Olu Baiyewu, Director of Programs & Outreach at the Food Well Alliance, joined Lois Reitzes to discuss the 5th Annual Soil Festival.
Read MoreLearn more about Food Well Aliance’s partnership with Truly Living Well for Soil Festival 2019.
Read MoreDuring the 5th annual Soil Festival on May 4, Food Well Alliance will be previewing a Community Compost Learning Lab at the Truly Living Well urban farm. The lab’s focus on composting education is the only one of its kind in the area and will continue to be a learning resource for all farmers, gardeners and home composters after the festival.
Read MoreOn this episode of Grow for Kids, we'll dig deep into the world of soil, an essential ingredient for human life on Earth. Join two kids just like you - Jaylen and Ally - as they explore Food Well Alliance's 2018 Soil Festival. We'll learn how to compost and grow lima beans from a plastic bottle.
Read MoreGrowers at Historic Westside Gardens build a local food system in gardens and backyards in the Westside of Atlanta.
Read MoreCox Enterprises is a strong supporter of strengthening Atlanta’s local economy through the food movement, building healthy communities, supporting innovation and connecting people to food resources. Last year, the James M. Cox Foundation announced a $3.5 million grant to support Atlanta’s Food Well Alliance. Formed in partnership with Atlanta Community Food Bank, the alliance aims to transform Atlanta’s local food system and improve local quality of life.
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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