The two nonprofits worked together to establish an affordable space for like-minded organizations to work alongside each other in the Westside.
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Plateful.ly: Atlanta’s unique pay-what-you-can meal-kit company
When local chef Hoss Yazdi lost his job during the pandemic and saw many fellow Atlantans struggling financially, he wanted to find a way to help. So, he turned to what he knew best — food. “I wanted to help people who were struggling during this pandemic, and as a chef, the best way I […]
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Historic Westside Gardens: The case to establish food security along with affordable housing
By Guest Columnist GIL FRANK, co-founder and executive director of Historic Westside Gardens
In the affordable housing crisis that brews in Atlanta, lower-income people and marginalized populations suffer most.
Historic Westside Gardens focuses on food justice, primarily on the Westside, where it is essential to note at the outset that around 70 percent of residents are lower-income renters. … Historic Westside Gardens chose to focus on the lack of food access, the “food desert” problem, while recognizing that people do not live their life in a silo. HWG is aware that, for residents, food access is not, today, their priority. Housing is their priority. How to link these two rights?
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Plan to ease Atlanta’s food desert restricts retail shops that sell no fruit, vegetables
Atlanta is poised to join an emerging national movement to restrict dollar stores from crowding into blighted neighborhoods and not selling fresh fruits and vegetables. The first major vote is set for Thursday by the city’s Zoning Review Board.
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Why are communities most affected by research often the last ones involved?
By Guest Columnist NICOLE KENNARD, a Georgia Tech graduate and doctoral researcher at Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, University of Sheffield
“I got out!” An overwhelming feeling of relief and achievement washed over me as I went up to the stage to receive the piece of paper I’d paid for in my own sweat and sanity over the previous four years….
Although I had a few job offers in engineering before graduation – from companies including Michelin and Boeing – I turned them down in the hopes of pursuing a career in sustainable community development.
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Atlanta to have ‘pick your own’ food forest with vegetables, nuts, berries
A 7.1-acre food forest is slated to open shortly in Atlanta as a place where the public is welcome to come and pick to eat whatever catches their eye. The idea already has spread around the world– a town in England even offers communal food grown in a cemetery.
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Atlanta Community Food Bank wins grant to help low-income folks buy fresh produce
The Atlanta Community Food Bank has received a grant of $250,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help low-income folks buy more fruits and vegetables. The funding is likely to help offset the impact of a food desert that stretches across a swath of Atlanta – an area where fresh produce can be hard to find.
