SAN FRANCISCO, California – According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), in 2021, nearly 20% of Black individuals lived in a food insecure household. In addition, Black people are almost three times as likely to face hunger as white individuals. Meet the solution to food insecurity in the state of Georgia, “The Garden Man” named by his community, better known as Bobby Wilson, who operates the nonprofit Metro Atlanta Urban Farm.

During the late 70s into the early 80s, Bobby Wilson would visit drug-infested communities in the Metro Atlanta area to start garden programs. “There were people in their communities that cared about their communities–they wanted young kids to learn something other than being a drug dealer, so we grew that program into more than three hundred community gardens across the Metro Atlanta area,” Wilson, who has now been involved in Urban Agriculture for more than thirty years, said.

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