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Wheat Street Gardens: an urban organic farm in the Old Fourth Ward
Urban Organic Gardening in Atlanta from Trevor Perla on Vimeo.
The Old Fourth Ward continues to evolve into a truly sustainable community. Truly Living Well recently broke ground on a four-acre organic garden in the Wheat Street community, just East of Downtown Atlanta.
Wheat Street Gardens retains the name but repurposes a lot where some of the nation's first Section 8 housing was built. That lifecycle ended in 2008 when the buildings were demolished leaving behind a barren landscape of building foundations. These foundations now have raised beds that will flourish with organic produce in the spring.
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We plan to partner with the farm at several points:
- I will work with SustainATL and the garden on the Sankofa Hen Ark Initiative. It's a teach-a-man-to-fish thing, except with chickens. We will supply chicken tractors that will fit perfectly within the raised beds. Chickens are grazers that will gladly consume the leavings and weeds at the end of each growing season. The birds scratch and "till" the soil, contributing their fertilizer and fresh organic eggs in the process.
- Soup Mama plans to source as much fresh vegetables from the farm as she can for her soup business. It fits beautifully with her model of delivering fresh soup made from organic locally grown ingredients within a two mile radius of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic District.
- I also hope to convince a local neighborhood grocery store to donate all their vegetable and organic spoils to the garden to be composted into high-quality soil.










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