51 organizations
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The East Point Farmers Market is a free outdoor market run by the East Point Main Street Association and the City of East Point. It sells fresh local produce, eggs, meat, baked goods, honey, jams, and coffee, with chef demonstrations and free children's activities. The market accepts SNAP/EBT, so you can use food stamps to buy fresh food.
3 services
The Decatur Farmers Market is a weekly outdoor market run by the nonprofit Community Farmers Markets, held on the front lawn of First Baptist Church Decatur. It sells fresh, locally grown produce and prepared foods on Wednesday afternoons and accepts SNAP/EBT. Through the Georgia Fresh for Less program, the market doubles SNAP dollars so every $10 in EBT gets you $20 of fruits and vegetables.
3 services
The Atlanta Community Food Bank is one of the largest food banks in the country and supplies free food to nearly 700 partner pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, and senior centers across 29 counties in metro Atlanta and north Georgia. You usually do not visit them directly for groceries; instead they help you find a nearby food pantry and can help you apply for SNAP (food stamps) and Medicaid. The fastest way to get help is to text FINDFOOD (or COMIDA in Spanish) to 888-976-2232 or use the pantry finder on their website.
7 services
The American Diabetes Association is a national nonprofit that helps people living with or at risk for diabetes. They give out free information on how to prevent and manage diabetes, fund research, run community education and fundraising events, and stand up for the rights of people with diabetes at school and work. Their regional office covering Georgia is in downtown Atlanta, and anyone can call the free 1-800-DIABETES help line.
5 services
The Market at Good Sam is a seasonal farm stand on the Westside of Atlanta that sells fresh, naturally grown fruits and vegetables from the health center's own 1-acre urban farm, plus pantry staples, at very affordable prices. It accepts cash, credit, and SNAP/EBT, and doubles the value of SNAP/EBT so your food stamps buy twice as much produce.
Historic Westin Heights/Bankhead3 services
Concrete Jungle is an Atlanta-based nonprofit that rescues fresh fruits and vegetables that would otherwise go to waste and gives them to people who are hungry. Volunteers pick fruit from backyards, parks, and farms, and the group also grows vegetables on its own small urban farm. Each year it distributes about 1 million pounds of produce to food pantries and soup kitchens across Georgia.
Downtown6 services
Metro Atlanta Urban Farm is a working urban farm in College Park that grows fresh, affordable produce and teaches people how to grow their own food. They run a farm market, give gardening and nutrition classes, rent garden plots, offer field trips, and donate fresh produce to homeless shelters and community partners.
Downtown12 services
Atlanta Harvest is a family-owned, Black-owned urban farm and open-air market in Ellenwood that grows naturally-grown fruits and vegetables and sells fresh produce, meats, eggs, teas, and coffee. They run a weekly produce box (CSA) program, an on-site farm market and nursery, and offer hands-on classes and volunteer days through their nonprofit, Cultivating Humanity, to teach people how to grow food, cook, and care for animals.
5 services
Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture runs urban farms on Atlanta's Westside that grow fresh, naturally grown food. They sell produce through a weekly CSA produce-box program and a monthly farmers market, and they teach people how to grow their own food through classes, training, and farm tours.
Downtown8 services
Food Well Alliance is a nonprofit network that helps community gardens, urban farms, and orchards across metro Atlanta grow more local food. They support over 300 growing sites with grants, compost, tools, training, and volunteers, and they work with local governments on food-system planning. They mainly help organizations and growers, not individuals directly.
Downtown10 services
City Fresh Gardens is a College Park gardening business run by a Georgia certified master gardener. They sell plants, design and install gardens, and teach hands-on classes that help neighbors learn to grow their own fruits and vegetables. They also work to connect local growers with people who want fresh, locally grown food.
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