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08/03/2026

08/03/2026

meet some of the featured AMF 2026 talent 🌱✨ 🥩 Rusty Bowers of Pine Street Market 🍸 Miles Macquarrie of Kimball House 🍔 George Frangos of Farm Burger more mixologist/culinary spotlights to come! excited about the line-up? be sure to snag your seat before they sell out 🎟️ https://l...

05/03/2026

05/03/2026

LIMITED TICKETS 🎟️ Individual seats to A Meaningful Feast 2026 are officially on sale - grab yours today!

A Meaningful Feast is our signature fundraiser celebrating the farmers, growers, and culinary talent at the heart of Atlanta's local food community. Don't wait — these go fast!

On Saturday, April 25th from 5-9pm at Decatur Legacy Park, enjoy 20+ award-winning culinary selections, handcrafted cocktails, local beers, a curated wine collection, cultural programming, a live auction, and a tour of Decatur's Kitchen Garden 🌱🍽️

The growers in our network bring generations of agricultural knowledge and cultural food traditions to their work. With access to land, resources, and community, they rise into new economic opportunities and leadership in Atlanta's local food system. Your ticket helps make that possible.

Featured Culinary and Beverage Talent:
Terry Koval, The Deer and The Dove — Executive Chef for the Event
Andy Gonzales, Steinbeck's & The Companion — Executive Chef for the Event
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Bread & Butterfly
Chai Pani Restaurant⠀
Farm Burger ⠀
Kamayan ATL ⠀
Kimball House ⠀
La Semilia
Leftie Lee’s Bakery and Sandwich Shop⠀
LEON's Full Service
Mambo Zombi
Maricela Vega
Octopus Bar
Pine Street Market ⠀
Rising Son Restaurant ⠀
Smiley’s Burger Club⠀
Tio Lucho’s Peruvian Coastal Restaurant⠀
Twisted Soul Cookhouse & Pours
Whoopsie’s

AMF 2026 - Tickets 🎟️ https://cbo.io/app/public/bidapp/amf2026

Want to get a behind-the-scenes look at this culinary celebration? Visit our website to sign up as a volunteer 💚

05/03/2026

That long-legged thing you find on your porch railing and flick off with a shudder — it's not a spider. It has no venom. It has no fangs. And it's been cleaning your garden without you knowing.

The harvestman — what most people call a daddy longlegs — split from spiders about four hundred million years ago. Different body, different biology, different job. The old claim about being the most venomous spider with fangs too small to bite is wrong on every count. No venom glands. No fangs. No bite. It's never been confirmed by any research because there's nothing to confirm.

What it actually does is eat aphids, mites, small slugs, fungal spores, and decomposing plant matter. It works the soil surface — breaking things down, keeping pest populations in check, cycling nutrients back into your beds. A garden with harvestmen in it has an active decomposition layer. That's a healthy sign.

🌿 If you see one:

- Leave it where it is — it's doing pest control on your behalf
- If it's inside, a glass and a card gets it back outside in seconds
- They tend to gather in groups in sheltered spots — that's normal social behavior, not an infestation

One of the most useful creatures in your garden, squished on sight because of a myth that was never true 🌱

28/02/2026

Orchards once worked like ecosystems.

Animals grazed beneath trees, reducing pests, recycling nutrients, and stabilizing production without dedicated inputs.

Then agriculture specialized. Livestock moved out. Inputs moved in.

The shift simplified management — but removed relationships that quietly balanced risk.

Integrated orchard grazing wasn’t just tradition. It was system design.

Today, resilience conversations are bringing these ideas back — not as nostalgia, but as strategy.

Complex systems can absorb shocks that simplified systems cannot.

So the real question isn’t efficiency.

It’s stability.

Would modern orchards benefit from reintroducing biological partnerships?