Soil Festival 2019

Food Well Alliance invites you to the 5th Annual Soil Festival -- and it’s bigger and better than ever before! Soil Festival is an annual tradition of celebrating soil as a key source for building gardens and healthier communities. This year, we’re unveiling a brand new Community Compost Learning Lab, the first of its kind in metro Atlanta.

This free event is for all ages and raises awareness of the benefits of using local compost to improve and maintain high quality soil and to grow healthy food. This year, we encourage all attendees to bring kitchen scraps to the event to support the production of healthy soil in Atlanta.

Soil Festival 2019 will be held at Truly Living Well’s Collegetown Farm in Southwest Atlanta, and includes a host of exciting opportunities for school gardeners, community gardeners, backyard gardeners, urban farmers, educators, beginning gardeners and children! Never been to a farm? This festival is for you, too!

Soil Festival 2019 will feature:

• Educational workshops on gardening, composting and beekeeping

• Children’s corner with fun garden-based activities and story time

• Variety of urban agriculture vendors to learn tools of the trade from

• Petting zoo for the kids!

• Free compost for your garden

• Complimentary farm-to-table food and fare

Come out with your fellow garden members, family, friends and neighbors to learn how each of us can help to preserve soil and continue growing healthier communities at Soil Festival.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Earth Day Farmers Jam

Celebrate community-based composting on Earth Day with Farmers Jam at Monday Night Garage! Join us for a fun evening of live music, delicious food, and lots of ways to learn about the many benefits of compost.

Farmers Jam is a collective of growers and friends who play music to bring nature’s rhythm to life. At each event, we sell local jam to raise money so we can plant more fruit trees.

At the Earth Day Farmers Jam, we're celebrating community-based composting with Food Well Alliance, the Georgia Recycling Coalition, and the Atlanta Community Compost Council.

Admission is free and open to the public, and food and drinks will be available to purchase. There will also be opportunities to win fun prizes, engage with local growers, and learn how your food scraps can become rich compost to grow healthy, delicious food in metro Atlanta.

Doors will be open in accordance with Monday Night Garage business hours. Show starts at 7:00 p.m.

This event is funded in part by a grant from US EPA Region 4

Local Low Country Boil

Georgia Farmers Market Association is thrilled to announce our first annual Local Low Country Boil dinner, hosted by B’s Cracklin BBQ on Sunday, March 24th at 7 p.m.

The Local Low Country Boil dinner will benefit our Just Food Farmers Markets launching this June, 2019. Just Food Farmers Markets will create equitable access to fresh, local food for Georgia families through sliding scale pricing. Purchase your dinner tickets and help others afford to eat well.

Come out and enjoy some delicious, locally made Low Country Boil prepared by Kevin Mobley of Anna Bell’s Mac, with vegan dishes prepared by Chef Zu. Learn more about the power of Just Food Markets, and engage with food justice advocates.

Can You Dig This? Screening & Panel

Join us for a screening of "CAN YOU DIG THIS" at Georgia Tech on Saturday, March 23, followed by a panel discussion of local growers and organizers. Admission begins at 4:30.

"CAN YOU DIG THIS" follows the inspirational journeys of four unlikely gardeners, discovering what happens when they put their hands in the soil. This is not a story of science and economics.This is a story of the human spirit, inspiring people everywhere to pick up their shovels and "plant some s#!t."

The film will be followed by a panel featuring Abiodun Henderson of Gangstas to Growers, and representatives from Truly Living Well Center for Urban Agriculture and Aluma Farm. The panel will be moderated by J. Olu Baiyewu of Food Well Alliance.

Everyone is also invited to participate in PLANT SOME S#!T Day on Sunday, March 24 by planting fruit trees in their yard or community garden, or by joining a community planting around ATL. A sign up link to volunteer at a planting will be available soon.

Join the movement online by tagging #plantsomeshit on social media.

We also encourage guests to become a member of Just Food through a monthly donation. Members receive discounted pricing for events and books, a monthly Justice Journal, and other benefits from GFMA.

City of Lawrenceville: Community Food Forum

Let’s Reimagine How Our City Grows!

In a time of rapid redevelopment in metro Atlanta, the pressure on urban farms and community gardens has increased dramatically. In partnership with Atlanta Regional Commission, Food Well Alliance will embark on a pilot project that brings together local governments and communities across the five-county metro Atlanta region to create a city-wide plan that incorporates agriculture into the next phase of their development.

Come share your ideas and hear from metro Atlanta farmers and local food experts about the value that community gardens and farms can bring to your city as it develops.

Event Overview:

• Networking + refreshments

• Welcome

• City Agriculture Plan value proposition

• Panel discussion with local food experts

• Community group breakout session

• Group reports

• Next Steps

Why here? Why now?

TEDxAtlanta 2019

2019 Theme: Ctrl+Alt+Del

From roadways to rest, anger to athleticism and identity to ethics, 17 TEDxAtlanta 2019 speakers will present ideas that challenge us to reconsider what we think we already know and to inspire us to look at the world through their eyes and what they’ve created.

Between speakers blocks, attendees will have the opportunity to experience some of these ideas in the X Zone as well as those of Atlanta’s most promising makers and innovators.

City of East Point: Community Food Forum

Let’s Reimagine How Our City Grows!

In a time of rapid redevelopment in metro Atlanta, the pressure on urban farms and community gardens has increased dramatically. In partnership with Atlanta Regional Commission, Food Well Alliance will embark on a pilot project that brings together local governments and communities across the five-county metro Atlanta region to create a city-wide plan that incorporates agriculture into the next phase of their development.

Come share your ideas and hear from metro Atlanta farmers and local food experts about the value that community gardens and farms can bring to your city as it develops.

Event Overview:

• Networking + refreshments

• Welcome

• City Agriculture Plan value proposition

• Panel discussion with local food experts

• Community group breakout session

• Group reports

• Next Steps

Why here? Why now?

City of Lovejoy: Community Food Forum

Let’s Reimagine How Our City Grows!

In a time of rapid redevelopment in metro Atlanta, the pressure on urban farms and community gardens has increased dramatically. In partnership with Atlanta Regional Commission, Food Well Alliance will embark on a pilot project that brings together local governments and communities across the five-county metro Atlanta region to create a city-wide plan that incorporates agriculture into the next phase of their development.

Come share your ideas and hear from metro Atlanta farmers and local food experts about the value that community gardens and farms can bring to your city as it develops.

Event Overview:

• Networking + refreshments

• Welcome

• City Agriculture Plan value proposition

• Panel discussion with local food experts

• Community group breakout session

• Group reports

• Next Steps

Why here? Why now?