We're giving away free compost for the spring growing season. Our Earth Day Compost Giveaway is open to anyone on April 18-19 from 10 am - 3 pm.
Join the GCC for a full day of learning, sharing, and connecting on compost in Georgia. The event will start with morning presentations at Oconee Fall Line Technical College and will move to the Laurens County Compost Facility for a tour and equipment demonstration
This bite-sized course provides essential knowledge and tools allowing you to share why regenerative agriculture is such a powerful solution for the wellness, water, and climate crisis.
Join Yenn Adanya for an inspiring online discussion where she will share her personal experience of buying an urban farm with the help of USDA funds, securing a well, hoop houses, and more through a grant with NRCS, and other resources you can tap in to.
Calling all farmers! Join Food Well Alliance for the evening to explore the support available to small-scale growers from local government, private entities, and nonprofit organizations.
We're hosting a BCS Group Training session, which is the first step to checking out the BCS tractor and attachments available to growers. The training will be at High Hog Farm on Monday, February 10 from 9:30 am - 12:30 pm.
Come join On Da Farm for a day of giving back at Oyun Botanical Gardens! Get your hands dirty, helping out with various tasks around the garden.
In 2025, Food Well Alliance plans to distribute $274,000 in Farm Grants through two types of support: a $25,000 Farm Forward Grant for two farms undertaking significant improvement projects and a $8,000 Farm Support Grant for 28 farms focused on smaller projects.
Food Well Alliance is working with CompostNow to starve landfills and provide farms in Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, and Gwinnett counties with a 15-cubic yard delivery of high-quality, food scrap-based compost.
Join Grants & Resources Manager Kalia Henry, for the Farm Grants Q&A Webinar on December 9 at 11 am to learn more about the application process.
Join us on Saturday, December 7, at Pat Maxwell’s Place for a community orchard planting and workshop! Food Well Alliance will lead a workshop on fruit tree planting and care before kicking off a community orchard planting at Pat Maxwell’s!
Join Food Well Alliance for a Fruit Tree Planning webinar on December 4 at 6 PM! Learn the essentials of planning and caring for fruit trees in this informative session led by Josh Fuder, UGA Extension Agent and board member of North American Fruit Explorers (NAFEX).
Global Growers is excited to welcome their third cohort of Co-Farmers out to their farm! Register for a tour of our Rockdale Organic Co-Farm and an information session on our programs.
Global Growers is excited to welcome their third cohort of Co-Farmers out to their farm! Register for a tour of our Rockdale Organic Co-Farm and an information session on our programs.
oin Food Well Alliance and Farmer Jeff at Souper Jenny's Farm to learn the incredible power of cover crops on November 9!
The Virtual Open House is your opportunity to speak with Food Well Alliance and the Atlanta Regional Commission team members about the application process, timeline, and how a City Agriculture Plan could benefit your city. Join us on Zoom on November 6.
Join West Side Watershed Alliance in partnership with the Clinical Research Center of Morehouse School of Medicine as we embark upon an educational hike through the Cascade Nature Preserve.
Join us for a discussion with a panel of experts in the field of butterflies and conservation, and the unique experience of a butterfly release. Hors d'oeuvres, beer, and wine will be served.
Food Well Alliance is hosting a Fall Compost Giveaway for anyone and everyone! Compost will be in the parking lot of 970 Jefferson Street NW from 10 am - 3 pm on October 26.
Join us for the Exclusive Premiere of Seeds of Resilience Season 3, a production from Earth and Heirloom, Off tha Record, and Food Well Alliance!
The Open House is your opportunity to speak with Food Well Alliance and the Atlanta Regional Commission team members about the application process, timeline, and how a City Agriculture Plan could benefit your city. All are welcome to stop by anytime between 11 am - 1 pm to discuss your vision for a robust local food system.
Getting back into production after sustaining hurricane damage is overwhelming. Join us for information on USDA recovery options and resources for producers with less than 10 years of experience.
Kelly Mogelgaard, Master Gardener, will speak on her 30 years’ experience in gardening and operating a landscaping company. Some of her topics are what to do first, how to select plants, and how to enjoy the work and the results of the work. Some of her specific interests include cut flowers and landscape design.
North Fulton Master Gardener, Sandra Shave, will provide glimpses of spectacular local gardens. Sandy will showcase unique landscaping from Master Gardeners’ gardens, with the goal of providing gardeners with ideas and inspiration that they can bring to their own home garden. The class provides an overview of what might be possible and elements of garden design. The class will demonstrate that gardening is as varied as your individual creativity and the fun is in the discovery, the failures and the success.
This event is an opportunity to share this progress with a wider community members, and allow for their input on design strategies, in addition to celebrating in a fun, fall atmosph
Global Growers Network(GGN) and Food Well Alliance are hosting an Agritourism Farmer Field Day on Monday, September 30 from 9am to 1pm. The event will be held at GGN's Rockdale Organic Co-Farm.
Want to explore drone technology and learn how to use it on your farm? Discover how to blend tradition and innovation tailored for small-scale farmers with an introduction to drones for small farms.
Join Intown Atlanta GNPS and Food Well Alliance for a Pollinator Picnic during the Great Southeast Pollinator Census! We will have games, door prizes, and free samples of honey and native seeds. Bring a snack or purchase something from our vendors, and enjoy a beautiful morning at Legacy Park.
Discover native plants and ecosystems, and learn how to nurture and protect native wildlife in greenspaces and your backyard with Tea Povolny of EcoLogic.
In this virtual workshop Giving Grove will discuss what you can plant, and where you should you plant to maximize production, increase beneficial insect biodiversity, and minimize maintenance.
Attend the Fresh Leaf Indigo Workshop at High Hog Farm! Learn and play with fresh leaf indigo dyeing as we pick and produce stunning shades of “mermaid” blue, using at least two different methods.
Food 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.
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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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