The Food Well Alliance Compost Connectors program at Truly Living seeks to ignite a passion in students for growing, cooking and eating more healthy food! Through the Compost Connectors program, students K-12 at partnering schools in Gwinnett county, Marietta and Atlanta will come to understand their role in building healthier communities by interacting with each phase of the compost cycle.
Read MoreFood Well Alliance is searching for a second city to become part of the City Agriculture Planning initiative in partnership with the ARC.
Read MoreMultiple nonprofits are partnering to help immigrants and refugees in metro Atlanta grow healthy food and stay in touch with their roots.
Read MoreThe 6th Annual Soil Festival was a two-day event from May 21-22. Saturday, attendees were at Truly Living Well for a day on the farm. Those who attended were able to enjoy farm tours, compost and vermicompost workshops, gardening classes, a petting zoo, a BYOB(ucket) compost giveaway, and much more!
Read MoreEast Point’s first Agriculture Plan focuses on urban farming and prioritizing equitable access to healthy foods.
Read MoreThe City of East Point has become the first in the Atlanta area to adopt a city agriculture plan following a unanimous vote at their April 19 meeting.
Read MoreWorking to build and support urban farms and gardens across Metro Atlanta since 2016, Food Well Alliance is now looking to implement the city's first agriculture Plan in East Point.
Read MoreFood Well Alliance received a $250 thousand grant from the US Department of Agriculture to create the Atlanta area’s first city agriculture plans.
Read MoreThe Food Well Alliance, a collaborative network of growers, community and city leaders seeking to build thriving community gardens and urban farms, named Kate Conner as its new executive director. Conner, who has served as the organization’s senior director of strategic development, stepped in as interim executive director in September after the departure of Kim Karris.
Read MoreFood Well Alliance also did its share to keep growers growing, and to provide that food where it was needed. In 2020, the 5-year old nonprofit delivered seedlings, bulk compost and labor support to dozens of community gardens; deployed nearly 1,500 hours of labor support to urban farms; facilitated the distribution of more than 330,000 pounds of excess food donated by metro area gardeners; and helped to activate idle school gardens to grow food for families in need.
Read MoreWhen the pandemic turned idle school gardens into weeds, robbed urban growers of income streams, and created long lines at food banks, two Atlanta nonprofits joined forces to fight back. The response is Project Giving Gardens, where urban growers are being paid to turn 102 metro-area school gardens into a harvest of vegetables that is going back into the community to feed families.
Read MoreWith the Project Giving Gardens program reinstated, over 100 community gardens will be prepared to become fully functioning mini-gardens under the direct supervision of some of the area’s most renowned urban farmers.
Read MoreTo maximize opportunities during COVID-19, Food Well Alliance is focusing on providing land prep, compost, and other support to urban farms and community gardens.
Read MoreFood Well Alliance partnered with Captain Planet Foundation to revive over 100 school gardens in Metro Atlanta to provide fresh fruits and vegetables for families in need.
Read MoreFood Well Alliance and the City of East Point city council brought back its bucket garden initiative, affectionately labeled the "Bucket Brigade" for 50 new families.
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—Chairman Emeritus of Cox Enterprises and Chairman of the James M. Cox Foundation—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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