Margarett Wilson Interview: Atlanta Urban Agriculture Oral History Project
This is an oral history interview with Margarett Wilson at the Metro Atlanta
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Metro Atlanta Urban Farm believes everyone deserves access to affordable high quality produce. Our produce is certified naturally grown and harvested with care by the hands of staff and volunteers who support an equitable food distribution system. We provide gardening and agricultural training to ensure families learn to feed themselves and to create future generations of urban agriculturalists. Welcome to our Farm. We invite you to explore, learn, eat, and grow with us!
To everyone who has supported me through donations and casting votes for me during CNN’s 2022 Hero of the Year campaign, thank you! My heart tells me that we finished strong in the voting process that ended on December 6th.
The votes and support that we received from around the world lets me know that we are already Number 1, regardless of who receives the Hero of the Year Award on December 11th. However, because of each of you, we feel that our chances are excellent. We cannot thank you enough! And we are forever grateful to CNN Heroes for the worldwide exposure this experience has brought to The Metro Atlanta Urban Farm and our community.
Now that the voting is over, I would like to ask you to do one more thing for us as we enter the final phase.
Subaru has promised to match up to $50,000 in donations to each Top 10 CNN Hero’s 501(c)(3) nonprofit, for donations made through GoFundMe. We need you to help us raise $50,000.00 by January 1st. What a tremendous boost this would be for Metro Atlanta Urban Farm as we start the New Year.
If you are able, I am asking you to donate $5.00, $10.00, $20.00, or whatever your heart leads you to give. Your generous donations will make it possible for us to improve, increase, and extend our programming and services to marginalized and underserved communities.
No donation is too small or too large. We are thankful for them all.
Thank you in advance for all that you do to support Metro Atlanta Urban Farm and other community-based organizations.
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After 20 years of building community gardens, Bobby Wilson invested his retirement money into a farm that feeds over 200 families per week.
At Metro Atlanta Urban Farm, we believe EVERYONE should have access to affordable fresh produce that is grown free of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. Our mission is to reduce barriers to healthy living in urban communities by encouraging, promoting, and supporting health education and sustainable high-quality, low-cost agricultural production through gardening and farm training. Most importantly, our goal is to feed you well! We invite you to visit our community and experience urban farming at our 5-acre facility located in College Park, GA!
We are a certified naturally grown farm and community-driven organization that provides training, education and support services for youth, adults and seniors interested in transforming their lives and communities through agriculture. Our overarching goal is to create sustainable urban agriculture while building stronger communities. It is through this medium we will create health and economic empowerment zones while providing accessible, high-quality, low-cost produce.
We are committed to identifying and implementing effective programming activities and processes that will help create healthy communities.
By demonstrating your support, you can help us keep working for the community. Supporting our youth today sets the foundation for a brighter, more secure future.
Our programs are designed to create future generations of urban farmers, provide incentives to motivate families to eat healthy and participate in an agricultural system that is environmentally friendly.
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Great time this morning. Learned about faking and gardening. Opportunity to have my own plot.
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I had the Best time at The Atlanta Farm. Book Launch Signing with Mrs Margarett Wilson and Guest Cerlebity Star Bobby Valentino and Family. They are Awesome People 👌
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They grow most of the produce they sell, so many options are limited by season, but you can't get much fresher. The quality of the greens has been unsurpassed. More often than not, the guy goes out into the field to pick what I am buying just before I pay for it.
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This place has grown. It has hoop houses, plots, well, and solar panels.
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Clementine the Clown was face painting at Metro Urban Farm. 🌱🐷🐮🐔. Great place to have a party or just visit!
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They support and teach about local urban farming. How to get the best yield out of the smallest places.
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