Stories tagged "Food Access"
Community Notebook: “I wanted to create a space that feels like your living room”

Our weekly feature, Community Notebook, is filled with snippets of information, conversations, and reporting about the communities where we work.

Community Notebook: Mobile market provides food to people “waiting for hours”

Our weekly feature, Community Notebook, is filled with snippets of information, conversations, and reporting about the communities where we work.

“We got to get back to the basics.”

Self-reliance is the core of the Metro Atlanta Urban Farm philosophy, whether that’s nurturing a patch of tomatoes or okra in your backyard or securing a farm number to access USDA programs.

Community Notebook: Hapeville cafe serves morning coffee and evening cocktails

Our weekly feature, Community Notebook, is filled with snippets of information, conversations, and reporting about the communities where we work.

“agency over their own food supply”

In a city with an abundance of both food deserts and good dirt, the Wylde Center seeks to educate residents about growing food and caring for the environment.

Community Notebook: May 13, 2025

Our weekly feature, Community Notebook, is filled with snippets of information, conversations, and reporting about the communities where we work.

“Eat the bitterness and be creative”

As Trump’s tariffs go into effect, immigrant entrepreneurs and other small business owners figure out ways to navigate “America First” policies

How one East Point resident thinks Tri-Cities can build community through food

Canopy Atlanta Fellow LeJoi Lane talks about food insecurity, grocery stories, and finding joy in food and community.

A woman places her groceries on the checkout conveyor of a Kroger store location.
Cart chronicles: How one Tri-Cities resident grocery shops for fresh food in metro Atlanta

She lives less than two miles from a Kroger. But she’d rather drive over 30 miles for the best produce she can find.

What will it take for Tri-Cities to get more grocery stores?

When grocery store chains ignored East Point, residents found other ways to bring fresh foods to their city.

For the love of masa

A difficult conversation about the dietary staple

A vendor’s loves and laments about the Atlanta State Farmers Market

Five ways residents want Forest Park to grow—and how the city is actually spending their money

¿A quién atiende verdaderamente el mercado estatal de agricultores en Atlanta?

La situación de aislamiento del terminal de los productos agrícolas en la que se encuentra la ciudad más grande del condado de Clayton.

Who does the Atlanta State Farmers Market really serve?

How Clayton County’s largest city finds itself alienated from the produce terminal

Growing pains

The future for Black farmers in West End and beyond looks just as unstable as the present