Kate Conner recognized among Atlanta Magazine's 2023 Women Making a Mark
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Congratulations to Food Well Alliance’s executive director, Kate Conner, for being selected as one of the 2023 Women Making A Mark!
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Let's Go Enviro - GPB
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Compost Connector students from Booker T. Washington High School are featured in GPB's Let’s Go Enviro, a brand new digital video series that is available to teachers and students across Georgia.
Read MoreLocal middle school students are turning what would've been wasted food into nourishment - WSB-TV
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See how the students at Marietta Middle school turning over 750 lbs of food scrapes into compost. Marietta Middle school’s composting, led by Michelle Gambon, is part of Food Well Alliance’s Compost Connectors program.
Read MoreFoodwell Alliance’s Soil Festival is May 6 - AJC
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Foodwell Alliance’s Soil Festival will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 6 at Maddox Park. The fundraiser will help support more than 300 farms, community gardens and orchards in metro Atlanta. Attendees can dine on food from local vendors, learn about the importance of healthy soil, meet local food leaders and engage in cooking demos, children’s activities and workshops on such topics as composting, beekeeping and gardening.
Read MoreTraining the next generation of growers at Marietta Middle School - MDJ
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Huddled over a black, plastic compost tower, Marietta Middle School students churned dirt inside a vessel with a crank, aerating the soil to help the organisms move around and break down the muck.
Read MoreCommunity Garden kicks off in Jonesboro - Clayton News Daily
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The city of Jonesboro’s Community Garden & City Agriculture Plan Kickoff Event was held Saturday, April 15 at 223 N. Main St.
Read MoreJonesboro taking part in ARC, Food Well Alliance ‘City Agriculture Plan" - AJC
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The city of Jonesboro will celebrate its inclusion in the Atlanta Regional Commission’s and Food Well Alliance’s “City Agriculture Plan” with a morning of garden prep Saturday.
Read MoreJonesboro to Receive $75,000 to Grow Local Food Access
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After successfully launching City Agriculture Plans in East Point and Alpharetta, Atlanta nonprofit Food Well Alliance and the Atlanta Regional Commission have selected the City of Jonesboro as the third metro city to develop a City Agriculture Plan.
Read MoreNew program helps East Point families donate food waste to grow healthy vegetables - Fox 5
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One metro Atlanta city is giving families a way to help grow healthier food in their community without getting their hands dirty themselves. The City of East Point is starting a two-year-long pilot program that will let residents compost their food waste and turn it into soil for local farmers.
Read MoreFood Well Alliance, Westside Future Fund reflect on first year of 970 Jefferson - SaportaReport
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With about 25 percent of Atlanta residents living more than half a mile away from fresh food, the Food Well Alliance (FWA) and Westside Future Fund (WFF) envisioned creating an affordable space for like-minded organizations to work alongside each other in the Westside. Together, the teams established 970 Jefferson St. NW — a hub of collaboration and food innovation with 19 nonprofits and local businesses under one roof. The space’s doors opened in the fall of 2021 and, now in its second year, the two leadership teams are reflecting on its impact.
Read MoreFood and farm nonprofits ask for help supporting farms affected by freeze - AJC
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The Farmer Fund, which was established in 2015 and has been managed by the nonprofit Georgia Organics since 2018, is aiming to help farmers recoup losses from Winter Storm Elliott, which hit the United States in December 2022 and brought brutally cold temperatures to much of the country.
Read MoreEffort to help metro area farmers hit hard by the December freeze - WSB-TV
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“Farmers are used to having cold nights and covering things. But this was multiple days of deep, deep freeze,” Georgia Organics CEO Alice Rolls said. Rolls heads up the nonprofit which helps the state’s organic farmers, especially when the weather turns against them.
Read MoreAlpharetta becomes 2nd metro city to develop agriculture plan - AJC
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Alpharetta Council Members voted recently to officially adopt a City Agriculture Plan. Food Well Alliance and the Atlanta Regional Commission selected Alpharetta as the second metro city to develop such a plan and helped guide the city through the process. Food Well Alliance will provide $75,000 in funding. The city will match those funds to help bring the plan to life.
Read MoreAlpharetta adopts agriculture development plan - Alpharetta-Roswell Herald
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After nearly a year of community meetings and planning, the Alpharetta City Council has approved a comprehensive plan to guide and encourage agricultural development in the city over the next five years.
Read MoreAlpharetta Adopts City Agriculture Plan - The City of Alpharetta
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The City of Alpharetta officially adopted their City Agriculture Plan on Monday December 12th. The comprehensive Plan was formulated over the year, with input from hundreds of residents who attended a half dozen meetings to brainstorm ideas of what a healthy and vibrant local food system could look like and how to achieve that.
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