FoodCorps Friday–We Like Big Broccoli and We Cannot Lie By, Food Bank of Northeast Georgia service member, Susie Burton Avid readers of FoodCorps Friday on the Daily Dirt might remember that in September, the FoodCorps Georgia team visited Level Grove Elementary in Habersham County to teach a lesson and help second grade students […]
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ATLANTA—-Over 1,000 attendees joined Georgia Organics to celebrate 20 years of incredible growth in the good food movement and honor an icon for urban agriculture at the 20th Anniversary Georgia Organics Conference, Rashid Nuri, founder of Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture. As Nuri often says, “We grow food, we grow people, and […]
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ATLANTA—-Over 1,000 attendees joined Georgia Organics to celebrate 20 years of incredible growth in the good food movement and honor two of the foremost leaders at the 20th Anniversary Georgia Organics Conference, and Tony and Linda Scharko. Tony and Linda Scharko were honored with the Barbara Petit Pollinator Award for outstanding community leadership in Georgia’s […]
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ATLANTA—–Over 1,000 attendees joined Georgia Organics to celebrate 20 years of incredible growth in the good food movement and honor four graduates from last year’s Journeyman Farmer Certificate Program. Led by the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension with support from partners across the state, Georgia Organics and UGA Extension helped to provide comprehensive training for […]
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Over 1,000 attendees joined Georgia Organics to celebrate 20 years of incredible growth in the good food movement and honor three of the foremost leaders at the 20th Anniversary Georgia Organics Conference, Rashid Nuri, and Tony and Linda Scharko. The occasion also shone the spotlight on recent graduates of the Journeyman Farmer Certificate Program and […]
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FoodCorps Friday- A Snapshot of Service in the Winter Months By, Food Bank of Northeast Georgia service member, Katie Sanders On the calendar, it may seem as if we are in the middle of winter but the weather here in Georgia seems to still be a little confused. Some weeks the highs in the […]
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FoodCorps Friday-Finding Common Ground with Food and Family By, Athens Land Trust service member, Kana Miller Growing up, I was a quirky eater. I wasn’t a picky eater, but a quirky eater. For instance, I didn’t like hamburgers. I still, to this day, don’t know why – I liked beef and I loved […]
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