Local food entrepreneur and Food Well Alliance grant recipient Yasmeen Sabir has been selected as one of 10 female social entrepreneurs to participate in a one-year fellowship with the Sara Blakely Foundation and the Center for Civic Innovation.
Read MoreLeaders from organizations including Compostwheels, Georgia Recycling Coalition, Truly Living Well and the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, collaborated to identify challenges concerning the local community-based composting ecosystem during the latest Working Table.
Read MoreFrom start-up enterprises to established non-profit organizations, collecting data to measure outcomes for success can be daunting. Last week, Food Well Alliance gathered passionate leaders from 14 organizations who received a 2017 Local Food Grant to help make this a little easier.
Read MoreFood Well Alliance convened 12 organizational leaders for the first of several Working Tables with the goal of developing recommendations to scale and support community-based composting in Atlanta.
Read MoreLeaders Growing Community Gardens is a collaborative initiative that was launched last year and born out of the desire to see community gardens in metro Atlanta thrive. On January 20 and 21, Food Well Alliance was joined by volunteer leaders of community gardens across Gwinnett County as we hosted the last workshop that came out of this initiative.
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We are excited to announce our 2017 Local Food Grant Recipients. They are a powerful example of how thoughtful placed-based collaboration can help unite the local food movement to build a healthy food system.
Read MoreFifteen Community gardens across metro Atlanta were recently awarded rich, organic compost in bright yellow bags thanks to Food Well Alliance. These community gardens will receive extra help in the garden thanks to all the nematodes, fingi, protozoa and many other living beings in their nutrient-rich compost!
Read MoreMore than 75 farmers and organizations that support farmers joined Food Well Alliance for a community-based conversation and fellowship over a meal of locally produced food called “We Are Farmers”.
Read MoreYou’re probably wondering why we selected leadership as one of the most pressing challenges for local community gardens.
Read MoreThe Georgia Agribusiness Council’s Dr. Joe B. Crane Classroom Grant Program seeks to award funds to educators who provide thought provoking lesson plans that promote agricultural learning in the classroom.
Read MoreEight prominent organizations and experts came together to study the current gaps around leading and managing community gardens to identify and create opportunities and resources for sustaining community garden infrastructure.
Read MoreLast week Creative Loafing released their highly anticipated "Best of Atlanta" issue, and we couldn't help but notice some of the local food movement's very own recognized for the work they do.
Read MoreThe Annual Pre K Fruit and Veggie Land will be held Oct. 18-21. Atlanta Public Schools is looking for farmers, farm to school educators, and nutrition educators to volunteer.
Read MoreFood Well Alliance invites you to our second official Learning Table “We are Farmers: A meal and discussion for farmers and friends” on October 13 from 5:30pm -8pm at Atlanta Community Food Bank.
Read MoreLeaders Growing Community Gardens is an essential collaborative effort to sustain operations and resources for garden leaders.
Read MoreTwo of our 2016 Local Food Grantees, show us how collaboration can repair a neighborhood through food in a genuine visual of Historic South Atlanta. Learn more and apply for the 2017 Local Food Grant by September 27.
Read MoreBreakout sessions, hands-on workshops and pre-conference events will focus on this year's conference theme, "Connecting with Parks." Successful presentations will offer a unique and innovative opportunity for attendees to explore questions of connectivity.
Read MoreMayor’s Office of Sustainability and the Food Well Alliance are looking for an Urban Agriculture Fellow to help make Atlanta a top-tier city for sustainability, strengthen our local food economy.
Read MoreFrom complimentary soil tests to compost workshops, gardeners had the perfect resources at their fingertips to build healthier communities from the ground up at the 2016 Soil Festival.
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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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