Welch Street Community Garden 

Farmers Market

CMB is the caretaker of a community garden in Atlanta where we grow our own food, provide community plots for neighbors and provide workshops to youth and community groups about the importance of locally grown food, what food deserts are, eating healthy food, and controlling one's food supply. We plan to build hoop-houses on other properties we own and an aquoponics program to create a micro-business for youth in the community.

We are seeking to establish a permanent, multi-vendor farmers market that will serve poor and working-class Black communities. We are currently working to deliver two pilot farmers market. One is located in a low-income and senior housing complex and the other is in the parking lot of a community grocery store. We seek to increases the amount of fresh available food to the community, educate community members healthy diets and strengthening the area’s local food network. Our ultimate goal is the creation of a co-cooperatively owned grocery store.