Across metro Atlanta, an early marker of spring is the opening of neighborhood farmers markets, their tables full of tender salad greens, eggs and fresh bread. But as the COVID-19 pandemic worsens, small local farmers who sell at those markets are racing to find ways to stay afloat if those markets do not open in the coming weeks.
Read MoreGwinnett County and the City of Lawrenceville received a $10,000 grant from Food Well Alliance for a new community garden at Rhodes Jordan Park to provide vegetables and greens to nearby residents who may not have access to nourishing food.
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 MoreA pair of nonprofits said Wednesday they bought the former Atlanta Community Food Bank headquarters on the city’s westside, to preserve the building as a community gathering place and affordable space for small businesses.
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 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 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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