Atlanta Food & Farm PBC - AF2GA

11/18/2025

Atlanta Food & Farm PBC - AF2GA is proud to have served as a consultant for the design, planning, and initial installation of this outstanding community garden!

This GAgives on Giving Tuesday, your support helps strengthen our local food system. Together, we can help communities grow more of their own food & support 171 gardens like Norris Lake Community Garden Club - NLCGC.

There are many community gardens across metro Atlanta, but only one that exists on an island! Tucked inside a Gwinnett County neighborhood is Norris Lake Community Garden. In 2018, Elena Klonoski and her father, John, set out to transform an island filled with native and invasive plants into a space where neighbors could grow food and connect with nature. “We’re very diverse, economically, socially, ethnically. There’s probably nothing like this garden–now park–that has people conversing, walking dogs, picking fruit, and working together,” said John.

Without vehicle access and only a footbridge to cross, bringing supplies to the island was difficult. Eventually, John had the clever idea to create a pathway by placing gravel under the water, making it stable enough for a vehicle to pass through. Since then, Elena has moved to Boston, but her parents, John and Sharon, keep the community garden alive with help from other involved community members such as Jean Harrison and Wes Lucas.

Watering their plants was another major challenge. “Well it’s not the water itself,” explained Sharon, “because we get the water from the lake, but getting it to where it needs to be was definitely a challenge.” At first they relied on a solar pump, but as the garden grew, the pressure wasn’t strong enough to do the job. With a little creativity and the Garden Forward Grant from Food Well Alliance, they were able to run electricity from the street to the island and install an electric pump.

Now it’s much easier to water the garden's 26 beds, the in-ground plots for donated produce, and the orchard, which includes pears, pawpaws, pomegranates, figs, apples, and blueberry bushes. Now that they’ve got the electric pump, they’re looking to get wifi on the island to automate irrigation when members are away. “Dollar for dollar their donations are in the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands if you do the true math of what their dollars really did,” said John waving his hand around all that they’ve been able to accomplish thanks to donors.

11/07/2025

Georgia farmers and families are facing challenges due to changes in federal funding and the current government lockdown. Below is a list of resources to help navigate food insecurity and rally community power Wholesome Wave Georgia (WWG) Partner... Read More

10/22/2025

Looking to strengthen your community garden or orchard's volunteer program? Join Food Well Alliance staff for a hands-on workshop about managing volunteers with confidence. Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/volunteer-management-workshop-tickets-1758140157539?aff=facebook

What You'll Learn:
✅ Strategies for recruiting and engaging volunteers
✅ Tools to keep projects running smoothly
✅ Practical leadership skills

We're also hosting the 2026 Fall Compost Givaway on the same day from 10 am - 3 pm. Bring your buckets to load up on compost after the workshop!

10/14/2025

oCommunity Garden Grants are back! 🙌 For the 2026 grant cycle, Food Well is deploying $132,500 in direct funding to community gardens through two opportunities of support.⁣

Community gardens can apply to receive a $1,500 Community Garden Improvement Grant or apply to receive the $10,000 Garden Forward Grant! That's two categories of support submitted through one application. Read up on all the details on our website or join us this Wednesday, October 15 for a Community Garden Grants Q&A Webinar. Learn more at ​​​​​​​www.foodwellalliance.org/garden-grants

Grant is available to community gardens in our five-county service area: Fulton, Gwinnett, DeKalb, Clayton, and Cobb counties.

10/14/2025

10/05/2025

10/04/2025

Yesterday, Wholesome Wave Georgia’s USDA GusNIP award was suspended, likely due to the federal government shutdown. Without access to those funds, we must temporarily suspend our Fresh for Less program.

We will reactivate Fresh for Less once we either regain access to federal funding or raise enough to continue the program at scale.

Fresh for Less partners: Please check your email for details, including how to register for our “What We Know” webinar.

Supporters: Your donation matters more than ever. Every gift helps feed Georgia families and sustain small-scale farmers during this critical time.

Everyone, SNAP shoppers, farmers, and supporters: Contact your representatives and share how the shutdown is affecting Georgia families and farmers. Together, we can make our voices heard.

10/03/2025

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Hey y’all.
This isn’t an easy post to write. First and foremost, thank you. Thank you for showing up for us. Thank you for being part of our family since 1992. Thank you for helping us build something special here in Atlanta, a place where good food, good people, and good vibes met for 33 unforgettable years.

Our love for this city and for every single one of you is beyond measure. EATS has never just been about the food. It has always been about you. Y’all gave this place its heartbeat. The conversations, the laughter, the regulars who became family, the generations who grew up walking through our doors.

That’s why it breaks our hearts to say all good things do come to an end. Our last day of operation will be Saturday, October 18th.

If you ever sat down for a meal here, pulled up with your people, or stopped by for a jerk chicken to go, we’d love to see you one last time. Come through, say hello, and help us close this wild chapter the way it began: together.

With endless love,
The EATS Family

09/18/2025

Food Well Alliance is thrilled to announce the recipients of this year’s farm grants! In 2025, we provided $282,000 in direct financial support to 31 farms.

SouthernCap Mushrooms and Patchwork City Farms both received the Farm Forward Grant, a larger grant to help make a bigger impact in serving their communities. Be sure to check out these amazing farms and show them some love!

www.foodwellalliance.org/farm-support-grant

Stay tuned as 2026 farm grants will be opening later this fall!