On October 20, 2021 the Fulton County Georgia’s Board of Commissioners adopted and signed a Resolution that encourages the expansion of urban agriculture and small farms in Fulton County’s 15 municipalities, including Atlanta.
Read MoreThere is a food uprising happening in America. Those who consider themselves amongst the revolutionaries must pack a backpack of knowledge and tools to make major change happen.
Read MoreThe Nuri Group is calling for the City of Atlanta to expand its national leadership in creating local food economies. Atlanta is one of the few cities in the nation that have made urban agriculture an officially recognized and supported part of City Government. It’s time to go further by instituting overarching, strategic, and systematic organization of resources that have been garnered from many sources.
Supporting Small Farms and Urban Agriculture is a matter of public health, equity, and economic development.
Read MoreConversations about equity, justice, and diversity are imperative. Equally as important is to remember that he who controls your food controls you. In the move toward nation-building, we must maintain focus on food security and food self-sufficiency.
Read MoreWe live in a world that is overwhelmingly fueled by reductionist ideas. In this way of thinking, there is no understanding of the whole, how all things are connected. Too many human beings are disconnected from the soil, disconnected from the natural world.
Read MoreThis COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the contradictions existing in our food system.
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