This Farmer Is Teaching 250,000 Families to Grow Their Own Food After SNAP Cuts
The Color Between The Lines with Esther Dillard
About 4 million Americans have already lost their SNAP benefits, and states will soon have to absorb most of that cost themselves. In this episode of The Color Between the Lines, host Esther Dillard sits down with Bobby Wilson, CEO and co-founder of Metro Atlanta Urban Farm, whose organization fed 25,000 families during the pandemic and is now teaching 250,000 households how to grow their own food instead.
Bobby talks about the moment the safety net started to disappear, why he named his new conference PLANTED after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s phrase "the fierce urgency of now," how grow bags make food independence possible without a yard, and the 15-year relationship with an HBCU that turned into a full-scale conference. He also shares the story of driving through the night to get one student enrolled at Alcorn State University.
Listen for Bobby's practical advice on starting your own grow bag this fall, his vision for a movement bigger than gardening, and why he says "if not now, then when."
Learn more or get involved: MetroAtlantaUrbanFarm.org BobbyMAUF@gmail.com 404-788-2432
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