Reconnect with where your food comes from and experience Atlanta’s local food movement at the 7th annual Soil Festival on Saturday, May 7th hosted by Food Well Alliance and Truly Living Well!
Join Michell Namer to learn about how protecting land through conservation can benefit farmers and landowners.
Get your hands dirty to help prep Gwinnett County community gardens for fall and learn how to effectively sow seeds to start your own vegetable garden!
Get your hands dirty to help prep Gwinnett County community gardens for fall and learn how to effectively sow seeds to start your own vegetable garden!
Join the statewide effort to count pollinators in the third annual Great Georgia Pollinator Census!
Learn best practices for introducing pollinators to your garden & how to identify insects with UGA Entomology Professor Carmen Blubaugh!
Get your hands dirty to help prep Gwinnett County community gardens for fall and learn how to effectively sow seeds to start your own vegetable garden!
Spring flowers are blooming and that means it is also time to plant your spring garden! Join Stephanie Van Parys, Executive Director of Wylde Center and horticulturist for an in depth talk on what vegetables to include in your spring garden. From lettuce to Asian greens, Stephanie will give tips for a successful and bountiful harvest.
Take a deep dive into the world of potatoes, Solanum tuberosum, with Derek Pinson, Greenspace Director, in this late winter installment of our Lunch and Learn series. Learn about the fascinating history and origins of this now globally-beloved crop, renowned for its high nutrient density and relative ease of cultivation.
Join us for an info session to learn more about the Civic Innovation Fellowship and the application process!
Join us for an info session to learn more about the Civic Innovation Fellowship and the application process!
Join Demo Day for CREATE’s second cohort on Saturday, April 21st in the Innovation Lab at Clark Atlanta University.CREATE, the Clark Russell Entrepreneurship and Technology Ecosystem, is an agriculture and food innovation pre-accelerator focused on serving aspiring entrepreneurs and southwest Atlanta.
Join a Fernbank scientist to explore Fernbank Forest, a 65-acre mature mixed-hardwood forest located in the heart of metro Atlanta. Participants will explore the diversity of native wildflowers and learn to identify them by their leaves and flowers.
Come visit a real-life science lab—an organic farm! Families will have the opportunity to explore the science of a real farm right inside the city. Come prepared to romp on this beautiful farm, get your hands a little dirty, and learn about food and farming. We will have plenty of kid-friendly activities. Dress for the weather, and bring your own water and snacks.
Discover the fabulous world of plants and animals at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. Hands on stations focusing on the natural world will introduce toddlers to life science concepts such as metamorphosis and plant diversity. Sprouting scientists will also notice changes in the garden as it emerges from its winter slumber. Come and run among the spring blooms, listen to bird songs, and have fun at our specially designed stations. Great field trip opportunity!
Chef Zu will teach you how to cook healthy, nutrition, and delicious vegan food using sustainable and seasonal ingredients that are easy to find.
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Shake off the winter blues and get in gear for springtime with this full day of garden inspiration. Enjoy the camaraderie of other enthusiastic gardeners as you pick up new ideas from seasoned experts.
Join the Wylde Center to share your seeds/scions, your knowledge, and your enthusiasm for different plant varieties with other gardeners and farmers. Connect with folks who might be your neighbors, or who might be from anywhere in our bioregion.
Come prepared to learn about benefits & challenges of raw manure use relative to the safety of fresh fruit & vegetable production as well as gain a better understanding of current FDA research & risk assessment efforts.
Join Invest Atlanta on Friday, January 19 at 12pm at the Adamsville Library for a lunch and learn about the iVillage at MLK project, which provides affordable, attractive, and transit-accessible retail and office space for small businesses. During the session, they’ll cover program objectives and the application requirements.
CREATE develops southwest Atlanta entrepreneurs in the AgriFood Technology industry beginning with a 12-week pre-accelerator. The program works with entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs to develop an idea, define the value proposition, validate customer demand and build a prototype.
Katharine Wilkinson, D.Phil., is Senior Writer at Project Drawdown, working to bring Drawdown to life and to the world and translating research into message. She brings with her an interdisciplinary background that cuts across sustainability, strategy, and thought leadership.
New and existing entrepreneurs in SW Atlanta focused on integrating technology in agriculture and local food systems can gain business training by participating in the CREATE program.
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.
Are you organizing a local food event in the Atlanta area that you'd like to see here on our site? Tell us about it! Approved events will be featured on our calendar.
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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