City of Clarkston became the first DeKalb County municipality to begin developing a City Agriculture Plan with Food Well Alliance, according to a Feb. 20 news release.
Read MoreComposting isn’t anything new for Baggett Elementary School third-grader Maya Terrazas. But using it as an educational tool toward the end of the recent school year was a bit different.
Read MoreProgram in collaboration with the Seeds of Love initiative to help provide grant funding to assist senior residential and community centers to revitalize is Thursday, February 15, at the Harriet G Darnell Senior Multipurpose Facility, 677 Fairburn Road NW.
The initiative includes partnerships with organizations such as Food Well Alliance, Rebuilding Together Atlanta, City of Atlanta leadership, and community residents.
Read MoreThe city of East Point, in partnership with CompostNow and nonprofit Food Well Alliance, is launching a free, first-of-its-kind food waste drop-off program for residents.
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 MoreWith 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 More“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 MoreWhen James M. Cox Foundation Chairman Jim Kennedy envisioned local food as a tool to build community in 2015, he reached out to Atlanta Community Food Bank Founder Bill Bolling. Together they saw an opportunity to support and connect gardeners and farmers, and Atlanta nonprofit Food Well Alliance was born.
Read MoreThe Atlanta Braves are Pitching in for the Planet by creating 20 community orchards across metro Atlanta in partnership with One Tree Planted, Players for the Planet, Food Well Alliance, and The Giving Grove.
Read MoreStudents at Marietta Middle School collected 1,035 pounds of food waste throughout the school year and turned it into food-enriching compost for garden beds.
Read MoreCelebrate soil at the 7th Annual Soil Festival with Food Well Alliance, Truly Living Well and WABE.
Read MoreWith the help of Food Well Alliance and the Atlanta Regional Commission, the City of Alpharetta will develop the next City Agriculture Plan. The plan will help create sustainable food systems in Alpharetta and in early spring, the city will seek input from residents during the community engagement phase.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreMultiple nonprofits are partnering to help immigrants and refugees in metro Atlanta grow healthy food and stay in touch with their roots.
Read MoreThe 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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