This Is What Is In Store For The Community

Our Seeds Are Here! 

We received the seeds that we are sowing this spring, summer and fall in Nanna Anna's Garden (managed by Feeding Neighbors). The community of Grove Park, and surrounding communities, in Atlanta will be happy to know they will be beneficiaries of various fresh and organic vegetables, fruits and herbs throughout the Atlanta growing seasons.

Get your seeds now from Seeds Now.

The seeds they sell are organic/non-GMO.

Get 20% off your order using coupon code: SAVE20NOW

(You must use the coupon code to receive the discount)

"To me, gardening is also an art. Nobody does art like Mother Nature! Mother Nature designed all these plants. The garden is another palette, another canvas, and now you are using plants to paint that canvas and shape it the way you want to do it." - Ron Finley
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julia-wasson/learning-los-angeles-ron-_b_6043370.html

Help Feed Yourself

This vintage garden ad from the U.S. Department of Labor really gets the message across.

This is exactly what we all need to be doing.

What is Food Insecurity?

1. food insecurity

   noun

   noun: food insecurity

   the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food:
   "more than 800 million people live every day with hunger or food insecurity as their constant companion"
   Powered by OxfordDictionaries · © Oxford University Press

Did You Know? Eight states exhibited statistically significantly higher household food insecurity rates than the U.S. national average 2011-2013

Eight states exhibited statistically significantly higher household food insecurity rates than the U.S. national average of 14.6% 2011-2013 (note: Most are in the south):

•  Arkansas 21.2%
• Mississippi 21.1%
• Texas 18.0%
• Tennessee 17.4%
• North Carolina 17.3%
• Missouri 16.9%
• Georgia 16.6%
• Ohio 16.0% 

 Source: Feeding America
 

Hunger in America: Food Insecurity Fact 1

In 2013, 49.1 million Americans lived in food insecure households, including 33.3 million adults and 15.8 million children.

Source: Feeding America