Tag: Truly Living Well
For Armond Wilbourn, beekeeping is about more than just the honey
(Though the honey’s fantastic.) Meet Noble Honey Co. creator Armond Wilbourn.
Home for Dinner: Abiodun Henderson, founder of Gangstas to Growers
Abiodun Henderson founded Gangstas to Growers last year to train formerly imprisoned youths how to farm, and she’ll soon teach her first class of six with the help of local farmers from Grow Where You Are and Truly Living Well. Even after a tiring day of working outside, she still cooks dinner for her family at her Southwest Atlanta home.
Growing sweet potatoes can be tricky business
You might not realize that the sweet potatoes on your holiday plate represent a fairly big commitment for farmers. While a radish reaches maturity in about a month, a sweet potato takes three to four times as long—and requires ample room to grow.
Try a winter community-supported agriculture program
Most Community-Supported Agriculture programs take a break during winter, but a few keep going, offering greens and root vegetables such as kale, spinach, carrots, and sweet potatoes.
With full market, Truly Living Well expands mission
Last week, something lovely happened at Truly Living Well’s Wheat Street Garden. There among the beds of squash and tomatoes, on a concrete slab where a housing project once stood, a farmers market blossomed.
K. Rashid Nuri
Nuri's urban farms bring fresh food to areas of Atlanta where rubble, history, and poverty are cross-pollinated.
The first week on the farm
The first week of camp at Truly Living Well got off to a soggy start. It poured on Monday and Tuesday, and campers spent a lot of time in the open-walled pavilion that also serves as the farm’s market stand.
Cleanup day on Boulevard
As weed whackers thwacked yard-high grass and tangles of kudzu along the fence at Boulevard and Boulevard Place, they also disrupted a couple of anthills. The dislocated insects marched out across the sidewalk and over the feet and ankles of Reverend Joseph Crawford.