The Forest is a part of the City of Atlanta's initiative to bring healthy food within half a mile of Atlanta's residents by 2022. It is now owned by the Parks Department and more than 1,000 volunteers and neighbors are helping to plant, water, and maintain it. In a day alone, there can be more than 50 volunteers working on the Forest.
The Food Forest will produce a wide variety of fresh, flavorful, and healthy nuts, fruits, vegetables, herbs, and mushrooms, which will become available for public consumption. Located in an area identified as a food desert, the site was a working farm in 2000.
The forest is in the Browns Mill neighborhood of southeast Atlanta, where the closest grocery store is a 30-minute bus ride away. For more information click here.
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