East Point is pilot city in new urban farm initiative - WSB-TV

EAST POINT, Ga. — Empty grocery store shelves early in the pandemic highlighted a problem agriculture experts have warned us about for years, too much of the food we eat is not locally produced.

Now farms big and small are working to get more local food on your table.

Kate Conner is the Executive Director of the Food Well Alliance, she told Wilson their objective is to connect growers and city leaders to create access to healthy, local food. She says food scarcity in the first weeks of the pandemic highlighted the need.

“Local food is the healthiest food, and it is the most important in terms of resiliency in the long term,” said Conner.

Conner hopes a new program will do just that. Food Well Alliance received a $250 thousand grant from the US Department of Agriculture to create the Atlanta area’s first city agriculture plans.

“Just like we do with transportation and housing, we could have a plan that boosts urban agriculture,” Conner said.