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20 Organizations Cultivating the Food Movement in Atlanta

Food Tank

Food Well Alliance Food Well Alliance brings together leaders of the local food movement to support more than 300 community gardens, urban farms, and orchards in metro Atlanta. They support 10 farm, community garden and orchard sites in DeKalb and Rockdale Counties, helping communities grow fresh, culturally familiar crops.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

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Farmer Conservation Stories: Why Inflation Reduction Act Funding Must Remain Focused on Climate Change

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Photo credit: Vilicus Farms Farmers Are Coping with Severe Weather Many of the stories gathered by NSAC members highlight the climate impacts to which farmers are responding. For example, at Eckert’s Farm in Belleville, MO, Chris Eckert has seen extreme freezes killing off parts of his peach orchard. We appreciate your work!

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‘An Insane Amount of Water’: What Climate Change Means For California’s Biggest Dairy District

Modern Farmer

Dairy farmer Joseph Goni’s grandfather witnessed the 1955 deluge that flooded their farm. Photo courtesy of Lerda-Goni Farms) Since the 1983 flood, changes in farming patterns have also raised the basin’s economic risk, he notes. Despite the resilience of family [farms], the mega-trend is undeniable,” says Raudabaugh.

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NSAC Heads to the Rockies – A Summer Meeting Recap

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Here are snapshots from those visits: Members toured Sister Gardens, one of three sites that are part of Frontline Farming, based in Denver, CO, Sister Gardens is a vegetable, herb, and flower garden on more than one acre of land within the Aria Denver development. A disused orchard that had been stewarded by the Sisters of St.