Food Access and Healthy Eating
Organization Name | Type of Service Offered | Description of Services Offered | Phone | Web Page |
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Atlanta Botanical Gardens | Educational Materials | General educational materials on plants and animals, as well as a plant hotline. | 404-876-5859 | Link |
Atlanta Botanical Gardens | Classes and Applied Learning | Classes for kids and adults, including cooking and planning a vegetable garden. | 404-876-5859 | Link |
Environmental Protection Division | Reports | Reports on the fish eating guidelines, with reports of consumption restrictions by region. Also contains guide tailored to pregnant and nursing women on fish consumption. | N/A | Link |
Environmental Working Group | Educational Materials | Fish consumption calculator to determine safe levels given your age, gender, and heart disease status. | N/A | Link |
Georgia Department of Public Health | Educational Materials | Resources for the healthy consumption of fish (in regards to mercury levels). | N/A | Link |
Georgia Food Oasis | Educational Materials | Information on eating, cooking, and growing to prevent unhealthy eating due to food deserts. | N/A | Link |
Georgia Organics | Educational Materials | Many resources for consumers to learn about the benefits of organic food. | 678-702-0400 ext 208 | Link |
Georgia Organics | Grants and Funding | List of grants offered for farm-to-school activities. | 678-702-0400 ext 208 | Link |
Georgia SHAPE | Grants and Funding | Numerous grant opportunities for schools. While actual grants may change, many current grants involve farm-to-school programs. | N/A | Link |
Let’s Move! | Grants and Funding | Application and guidelines for schools to apply for a salad bar. | N/A | Link |
National Public Radio | Educational Materials | Food desert locator map of the United States to help understand the problem of food deserts in Georgia. | N/A | Link |
What’s on My Food? | Educational Materials | Searchable list of common foods and what pesticides are found on them. Also details health effects of these pesticides. | 510-788-9020 | Link |
Whole Kids Foundation | Educational Materials | School garden resource center, complete with instructions on building, tending, and recipes. | N/A | Link |
UGA Cooperative Extension | Educational Materials | Soil testing and preparation resources | N/A | Link |
Wallace Center | Grants and Funding/Educational Materials | Provides grants, workshops, and technical assistance to strengthen sustainable food-growing practices | N/A | Link |
Atlanta Local Food | Reports | Conducts and aggregates research on local food and food policy | N/A | Link |
Westside Food Oasis | Educational Materials | Features tips and recipes for healthy cooking; hosts idea-sharing and funding platforms | 678-553-5982 | Link |
Food Well Alliance | Grants and Funding | Offers grants to enhance community food security and access, healthy lifestyles, economic development, and environmental stewardship. | N/A | Link |
Captain Planet Foundation | Grants and Funding | Provides small grants to support environmental stewardship projects and helps implement “Learning Gardens” and “Planeteer Clubs.” | 404-522-4270 | Link |