Tag: Truly Living Well Natural Urban Farms
What I learned taking the food stamp challenge
The rules are simple. You can spend only the equivalent of your state’s average weekly SNAP allowance, which at the time in Georgia was $33.98. You can’t accept any outside food or eat restaurant meals, and, except for condiments, can’t use anything already in your pantry or refrigerator.
Where Wheat St. Garden Apartments stood, a new garden grows
In the vacant lot at the corner of Hilliard and Old Wheat streets in downtown Atlanta, you can still see the concrete pads where the Wheat Street Garden Apartments—a low-income housing project built by the historic Wheat Street Baptist Church—once stood. But just a few days after the announcement of an exciting new project, the pads were already covered with raised garden beds filled with rich earth.