Category Archives: community garden

Task Force Shelter Producing Pounds of Veggies on Rooftop Garden

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(APN) ATLANTA — The Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless has made good on its plan to help feed the homeless people it serves through an organic rooftop garden, involving bees and a rainwater collection system.  The garden is so successful, an expansion is planned.   Residents at the shelter, located in downtown Atlanta’s Peachtree and Pine Streets, will […]

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Atlanta Beltline Displaces Community Garden in Southwest Atlanta

By Anna Simonton, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA — Shawn Deangelo Walton left a meeting with BeltLine officials on Tuesday, July 29, 2014, with little recourse other than to comply with their demands.  The urban gardener and founder of WeCycle will uproot from Ashview Community Garden, taking his youth program to a nearby church by the end […]

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Community Gardening Gets a Boost in Atlanta

  By Stephen Wing, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA — Facing an uncertain future, people across the country seem to instinctively grasp two things: They want a greater sense of community in their lives and they want to grow their own food.  These two impulses are coming together in the phenomenal spread of community gardening.  In towns, […]

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