Urban farm to be planted downtown
Farming is coming to downtown Atlanta.
Mayor Kasim Reed is expected to announce on Wednesday a design competition to convert a 1.3-acre vacant lot across the street from city hall into an urban farm.
The goal is to transform the land into a thriving demonstration farm as part of the city’s “Power to Change” sustainability plan and its commitment to bring local food to the tables of local residents.
The lot, at Trinity and Central avenues is the former home to the Atlanta Municipal Court.
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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.
