A garden grows in the Old Fourth Ward

By Ernie Suggs

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A garden is coming to the city.

Wheat Street Baptist Church, in the heart of Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward neighborhood, has leased four acres of inner city land to the Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture to build an organic vegetable garden.

With the help of District 2 City Council Member Kwanza Hall and an investment by the Atlanta Falcons Youth Foundation, TLW will soon bring fresh vegetables to an inner city community that has seen its share of glory and blight.

The new garden site will be a market place and a training center for Atlanta citizens interested in urban agriculture.

There will be a ground breaking ceremony for the garden a 2 p.m. Sunday on the corner of  Hilliard Street and Old Wheat Street NE.