Next week, the City of East Point will kick off its city-wide community compost program, the first in the metro area. The city is partnering with CompostNow and Food Well Alliance to offer this free drop-off program for residents.
Read MoreA composting pilot program in one community is giving back to local farmers and in turn you at home.
Read MoreLilburn Elementary School fifth-grader Cynthia Turner had an unconventional reaction when she learned a food audit revealed an average of 600 pounds of food is wasted at the school each day because it goes unused.
Read MoreThe Great Southeast Pollinator Census is a way the community can get involved in protecting the environment around them. The first statewide Great Georgia Pollinator Census was in August 2019.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever tasted fresh produce from a local farmer’s market and wished you could always get the best of the season right from the soil, maybe it’s time to consider growing your own food. Teaching home food gardening to Atlantans is the pride and passion of Food Well Food Well Alliance, which hosts seasonal gardening workshops as part of their “Plant. Eat. Repeat.” series.
Read MoreWe’re all busy as bees these days, but if you can carve out just 15 minutes on Aug. 18 or 19, you can be a citizen scientist and help entomology researchers in the region. It’s time for the Great Southeast Pollinator Census. The event, now in its fifth year, is open to anyone in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.
Read MoreThe Food Well Alliance is one of four organizations to receive at $10,000 donation Delta Community Credit Union (DCCU)in June. The donation will go toward their Compost Connectors Program, which teaches students how to contribute to healthier communities by engaging with every stage of the compost cycle.
Read MoreThe Food Well Alliance is one of four organizations to receive significant financial support from Cobb-based Delta Community Credit Union in June.
Read MoreCongratulations to Food Well Alliance’s executive director, Kate Conner, for being selected as one of the 2023 Women Making A Mark!
Read MoreCompost 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 MoreSee 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 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 MoreHuddled 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 MoreThe city of Jonesboro’s Community Garden & City Agriculture Plan Kickoff Event was held Saturday, April 15 at 223 N. Main St.
Read MoreThe 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 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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