New to local food? Reconnect with where your food comes from and experience Atlanta’s food movement by attending an event below near you!

Local food leaders and organizations are always welcome to submit food and farm-related events located in metro Atlanta below.

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CREATE Information Session

  • Atlanta Community Food Bank 970 Jefferson Street Northwest Atlanta, GA, 30318 United States (map)

CREATE develops southwest Atlanta entrepreneurs in the AgriFood Technology industry beginning with a 12-week pre-accelerator. The program works with entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs to develop an idea, define the value proposition, validate customer demand and build a prototype.

Continued coaching and support is available to everyone who completes the pre- accelerator. This includes further business planning support, product development, networking, pitching investors or pivoting from the original concept.

CREATE’s partners include Clark Atlanta University, the Russell Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (RCIE), Truly Living Well, and the United Negro College Fund. The program is funded through the U.S. Economic Development Administration i6 Challenge Program.

Resources available to entrepreneurs through CREATE include:

  • Truly Living Well farm sites as living laboratories to test products
  • 3D printing lab (PLA and Metal printers, 3D scanner)
  • A national network of business and community to draw on for research, networking and potential investment.

CREATE’s second cohort begins the week of January 29th, 2018. Applications will go live on December 1 st, 2017 and close on January 12 th , 2018. Application is available at https://www.f6s.com/createatlanta/apply

Source:: https://www.f6s.com/createatlanta/apply
Earlier Event: December 7
East Atlanta Village Farmers Market Tree Lighting & Decorating Party
Later Event: December 14
2017 Bi-National Domestic Fair Trade Association Conference | Linking Up: Creating Fair and Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains