Tag: urban farming
Georgia’s farmers have plenty of crops. The problem is who can buy them—and how.
With COVID-19, Georgia farmers—and the organizations designed to support them—have had to rethink nearly every aspect of what they do with their bounty.
A farmer fled violence in Myanmar to start over in Atlanta. After a destructive flood, he’s starting over again.
Ceu had farmed rice and corn in the Chin state of Myanmar since he was 14. As violence escalated, Ceu fled when he was 36, seeking refuge with his wife and four children in Atlanta. The following year, he discovered Global Growers.
From foreclosed property to flourishing farm: Urban Sprout Farms grows in Lakewood
A few blocks south of the Lakewood amphitheater at the end of a dead-end street, something unexpected is sprouting: rows upon rows of certified organic kale and collards and beets (and, come summer, tomatoes and eggplants and okra).
It’s time you met your metro Atlanta farmers
Farmland takes up more than nine and a half million acres of land in Georgia. It’s time we got to know our farmers better, don’t you think? Meet JoVonna Johnson Cooke and Eugene Cook, Chris Edwards, and Joe Reynolds.
Micro urban farming
Turning vacant lots into urban farms is nothing new, but a few innovators are taking intown agriculture to another level. Microenterprises such as Widdernshins Urban Farmstead in East Point operate on just a fifth of an acre.
Mayor Reed aims to reconnect Atlanta with Georgia’s agrarian roots
Mayor Kasim Reed has grand ambitions for Atlanta—high-tech incubators, for instance. But his administration has another, more prosaic goal: to reconnect the city with Georgia’s agrarian roots.
K. Rashid Nuri
Nuri's urban farms bring fresh food to areas of Atlanta where rubble, history, and poverty are cross-pollinated.
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