Register Your Class for UGA's Pizza Farm
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Bring your 4th and 5th grade classes to the UGA Pizza Farm for fun, food and fitness.
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Food Innovation Network Sparks Up Exciting Convo
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During the launch event, attendees got a chance to register for the network, meet like-minded entrepreneurs, and participate in networking activities to help members learn more about each other.
Read MoreSoil Festival: Celebration for Healthy Soil in Community Gardens
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The Healthy Soil Festival was the perfect consummation of all the collective building we coalesced with community garden leaders over the past year.
Read MoreExciting Urban Ag Opportunity with The City of Atlanta
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The newly-announced Atlanta Urban Agriculture Director position will help urban growers navigate the city's land access, permitting, code compliance and assist with other challenges facing growers within the city.
Read MoreThe Center for Civic Innovation's Rohit Malhotra Becomes an Echoing Green Fellow
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Global nonprofit Echoing Green today announced that Atlanta native Rohit Malhotra has been awarded a highly competitive and coveted Fellowship for his work as the founder and executive director of the Center for Civic Innovation.
Read MoreReconnecting Families Seeks Community Garden Program Manager
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Reconnecting Families is currently seeking a part-time Community Garden Program Manager, who will manage the garden and gardening program.
Read MoreFive Days Left To Fund Concrete Jungle's Tree Parent Program
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Your donation will help Concrete Jungle create our Tree Parent programming to tend to the 2,500 fruit trees around the city we have mapped, create educational material, and their first-ever Director!
Read MoreIs 2015 The Year Soil Becomes Climate Change’s Hottest Topic?
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2015 is shaping up to be a big year for soil — in addition to being Global Soil Week’s third year running, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has declared it the International Year of Soil.
Read MoreA Bee Farm in Atlanta's Backyard
/Jenna Mobley local food and environmental educator is leading a swarm of bees at Springdale Park Elementary in Virginia Highlands. Learn more on the Virginia Highlands Civic Association's blog site.
On May 6, we heard there was a swarm of bees at Springdale Park Elementary (SPARK), then heard that they were part of the school’s garden center. So, where did we go? Over to watch Jon the beekeeper sort out what was happening. He wasn’t 100% sure but believed the colony had grown too large so some bees were leaving to start another colony. In this case “the defectors” gathered temporarily in a nearby tree, and then returned to swarm around the old hive. Jon set up another hive to encourage formation of the second colony. He moved the queen to the new hive along with some of the other bees and now he’ll just keep an eye on how it goes. Jon is quick to note the extensive benefits of honey bees, and points out that they are not aggressive. SPARK is very careful regarding both the care of the bees and the safety of the students.
Caylor works to establish a second colony for the swarming SPARK bees.
If you think this is fascinating – and who wouldn’t? – jump on over to SPARK’s Garden Center website to learn more. The center’s headed up by Jenna Mobley, SPARK’s Environmental Science teacher…and many energetic kids are actively engaged. You’ll also find more stories about Jon Caylor, a fifth generation beekeeper, who says that beekeeping is a hobby. He’s actually completing his graduate degree in organizational development at Mercer. Don’t you imagine he can draw some parallels between the organizational structure of businesses and bee colonies?
Contribute to the Interactive Food Movement Timeline
/The Small Planet Institute created a timeline of the food movement, with the help of leading figures in the food movement!
Read MoreRegister for UGA's School Garden Teacher Training
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Don't miss an opportunity to lead an educational garden at your local school! Register for UGA Center for Urban Agriculture's School Garden Teacher Training.
Read MoreSubmit a Pitch for Potluck & Pitch, Round 2!
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Georgia Food Oasis is excited to announce their next Potluck & Pitch will be happening on June 25 from 6-9 PM at the Food Bank.
Read MoreTwo Grant Opportunities with USDA
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Between 2009 and 2012, the USDA granted over $540 thousand dollars to Metro Atlanta organizations to expand markets and EBT outreach.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced two grant opportunities that seek to support the development and expansion of local and regional food through business enterprises, domestic consumption, local food access and market opportunities for farm and ranch operations serving local markets.
The Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP) aims to increase domestic consumption of, and access to, locally and regionally produced agricultural products by expanding domestic farmers markets, roadside stands, community-supported agriculture programs, agritourism activities, and other direct producer-to-consumer market opportunities.
The Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP) offers grant funds with a 25% match to support the development and expansion of local and regional food business enterprises to increase domestic consumption of, and access to, locally and regionally produced agricultural products, and to develop new market opportunities for farm and ranch operations serving local markets.
IF you are interested in completing market research, feasibility studies, business planning or implementation, learn more about the FMPP and LFPP grant opportunities.
Both applications are due by May 14th.
UGA, Food Bank of Northeast Georgia partner to increase access to local food, jobs
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The Food Bank of Northeast Georgia's food hub, housed in its Rabun County facility, will be the first in the country to leverage a regional food bank's supply chain to help farmers aggregate and preserve their produce.
Read MoreThe Color of Food: Building Autonomy as African American Farmers
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For Renard “Azibo” Turner, the solution for Black farmers is to find independence by working the land. - See more at: http://civileats.com/2015/04/14/the-color-of-food-building-autonomy-as-african-american-farmers/#sthash.26BS7QbT.dpuf
Read MoreWestview Community Garden demolished, but not the neighborhood’s dreams
/As a Bobcat bulldozer flattened rich beds of soil where kale, collards, and fruit trees once grew, neighborhood resident and volunteer garden coordinator Abiodun Henderson’s eyes filled with tears.
Read MoreCarver Neighborhood Market goes from thrift shop to healthy food
/FCS Urban Ministries’ commercial strip evolves to tackle food deserts
Read MoreFruit and vegetable prices going up as California drought continues
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Fresh fruits and vegetable prices will go up an estimated 6% in the coming months, as California’s ongoing drought continues to hit price tags in grocery stores across the country.
Read MoreDid Dan Barber’s Food Waste Pop-Up Make a Difference?
/What can the average person learn from fine dining meals celebrating bruised vegetables, pasta ends, and other food industry byproducts?
Read MoreWhy Cities Should Pay People To Eat Their Veggies
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Federal and state governments are matching some food-stamps purchases at farmers markets dollar for dollar. When cities take advantage, it pays.
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