COMMUNITIES & LOCAL FOOD ALLIES
Sun Market (eatfromthefarms.com) received a Georgia Food Oasis 2021 Planning Grant to help with launching and promoting its first market season in April 2021.
Led and managed by Gabbie Atsepoyi, a community activist living and working in Decatur, GA, Sun Market is on a mission to create affordable access to fresh local food for neighbors of communities near Columbia Drive, an area that lacks access to high quality fresh foods.
Read more, as Suzanne Girdner, Georgia Organics’ Community Outreach Manager, shares a conversation with Gabbie from a recent visit to Sun Market!
Georgia Food Oasis Spotlight: Deidre Grim of Healthy Savannah on Food Equity & Access
Urban Planner. Ph.D. Activist. Deidre Grim brings a passion for lost lasting, systemic change to her role as Nutrition Program Director for Healthy Savannah and the YMCA of Coastal Georgia.
Deidre Grim, Nutrition Program Director for Healthy Savannah and the YMCA of Coastal Georgia.
“Deidre is passionate about centering a community’s lived experience to influence and inform systems change. Her unique combination of skills and training allows her to see the interconnected nature of personal health and food systems,” says Suzanne Girdner, Community Outreach Manager at Georgia Organics.
Abeika Alexander Sows Empowerment and Connection, Columbus Reaps the Benefit
Abeika Alexander is a someone with her hands in the deep in the soil and roots of Columbus, especially so in the South Columbus community where she lives and works and has had a vital role establishing numerous community gardens.
When she speaks about the people of Columbus, their food access needs, and the work she’s done and plans to do, it’s hard not to absorb the enthusiasm and passion in her voice. She’s been called Columbus’ “Guerilla Gardener,” and it’s tempting to call her a superwoman. At the end of the day, she’s a woman with a spiritual, impassioned calling and the determination to make her home, and the world, better through the act of growing food and nourishing those around her.
The Georgia Foodcast
Rebecca Van Loenen of Augusta Locally Grown
For this edition of the Georgia Foodcast, host Skye Estroff talks with Rebecca Van Loenen, the new Executive Director of Augusta Locally Grown, about her work as part of GFO and how the Augusta community has adjusted for the COVID-19 pandemic and how they're finding new avenues to feed Georgians.