Farm design winner to get $25,000
Mayor Kasim Reed launched his Trinity Avenue Urban Farm Design Competition with a $35,000 boost from Wal-Mart.
The city will create an urban garden across the street from City Hall to produce fresh fruit and vegetable for Atlanta residents.
As part of the Wal-Mart gift, the winning designer – charged with transforming the site of the old traffic court building into a thriving demonstration farm – will receive $25,000.
The contest is open to students, educators and professionals across Georgia in fields related to urban agriculture and landscape architecture. Interested competitors must register online at http://www.trinityavenuefarm.org by Oct. 15 and submit proposals by Nov. 1.
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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.
