Food Well Alliance is set to distribute $110,000 in grants to 62 community gardens in and around Atlanta as part of the non profit’s ongoing work to “connect and build healthier communities.”
Read MoreAfter successfully launching City Agriculture Plans in East Point, Alpharetta, and Jonesboro, Atlanta nonprofit Food Well Alliance and the Atlanta Regional Commission have selected the City of Austell as the fourth metro city to develop a City Agriculture Plan.
Read MoreFood Well Alliance is among the awardees across the United States that received a grant from Direct Relief’s Fund for Health Equity, which mobilizes financial resources for organizations focused on non-clinical interventions that affect a person's health.
Read MoreThe Atlanta Braves partnered with Food Well Alliance for their “Pitch In For The Planet” volunteer project at Tapestry donation garden.
Read MoreAn Atlanta-based nonprofit is working to change that by installing hundreds of community gardens throughout the metro and on Friday, volunteers with the Atlanta Braves pitched in to help.
Read MoreThe 970 Building hosted a volunteer blitz for Giving Tuesday to help support the over 18 nonprofits using the building.
Read MoreDozens of volunteers from several non-profits like Food Well Alliance, Hands on Atlanta and Urban Recipe came together for Giving Tuesday at the 970 Building to work on projects like building orchard kits, painting tools for a community garden and filling boxes for a mobile food pantry.
Read MoreThe Braves are partnering again with Atlanta Braves catcher Travis D’Arnaud and his wife Britney for the Pitch in for the Planet Volunteer Project presented by Coors Light on December 1. Volunteers will plant fruit trees at Tapestry Garden, one of 20 community orchards in partnership with Food Well Alliance and Players for the Planet.
Read MoreAt Lovin Elementary in Lawrenceville, kids know the food they don’t eat can be used again.
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 MoreLilburn Elementary School fifth-grader Cynthia Turner had an unconventional reaction when she learned a food audit revealed an average of 600 pounds of food is wasted at the school each day because it goes unused.
Read MoreThe Great Southeast Pollinator Census is a way the community can get involved in protecting the environment around them. The first statewide Great Georgia Pollinator Census was in August 2019.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever tasted fresh produce from a local farmer’s market and wished you could always get the best of the season right from the soil, maybe it’s time to consider growing your own food. Teaching home food gardening to Atlantans is the pride and passion of Food Well Food Well Alliance, which hosts seasonal gardening workshops as part of their “Plant. Eat. Repeat.” series.
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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