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Fresh for Less

👩‍🌾➡️👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Fresh, healthy, locally grown food brings generations together. Remember eating Grandma’s sweet potato pie or enjoying a bowl of fresh strawberries after a trip to the farmers market? Food brings us together and creates memories that connect families and communities. 💡 WHY IT MATTERS: Access to fresh, healthy food is important at every stage of life. From children discovering new fruits and vegetables to families preparing meals together, Wholesome Wave Georgia supports our neighbors every day. 🎁Giving Tuesday is just around the corner. Your gift helps us get fresh, healthy, locally grown produce from local farmers to Georgia families in need. Donate today at the link in our bio.

👎 BAD NEWS: WWG recently learned that its long-standing USDA grant was not awarded for the upcoming cycle. The USDA grant has powered WWG's Fresh for Less -- our flagship, statewide food insecurity program -- since 2015. 👍 GOOD NEWS: Thanks to our broad base of support from committed citizens like YOU, WWG's Fresh for Less program is still going strong, Our base of support grew at Southern Chefs Potluck, which raised a record high $400,000. Although a major fundraiser like Southern Chefs Potluck makes a dent in our funding gap, it doesn't close it. 📢 WHY IT MATTERS: Budget cuts have a lasting impact for real people like Johnny from Columbus who depend on Wholesome Wave Georgia and the SNAP Program to eat healthy fruits and vegetables. "Without [WWG], we would not eat as healthy a diet! Neither myself nor my wife are capable of working anymore, so SNAP benefits have become an integral part of our budget." We’re in touch with state and local elected officials, corporate partners, and community foundations to secure additional support needed to continue amplifying access to fresh, healthy food to our communities. But the next opportunity for YOU to help is on Giving Tuesday. 🤝 HOW YOU CAN HELP: Donate to our Giving Tuesday campaign (link in bio) on or before December 1. Share our social media posts in November. Introduce us to elected officials and community foundations.

Wholesome Wave Georgia's office will be closed today for Election Day so our team members have the opportunity to cast their ballots. Every day, we work to get fresh, healthy fruits and vegetables from local farmers to Georgia families in need. Making our voices heard is another way we care for our neighbors. Today's an opportunity to shape the Georgia we all want to live in. Let's make Georgia the number one state for democracy. 🗳️ If you are able to make it to the polls today, we encourage you to vote!

😱Scary Fact: In Georgia, over 1.4 million people are considered food-insecure and receive federal nutrition assistance including SNAP benefits. The high cost and low accessibility of fresh foods leave these households with limited options to feed their families. 💀Scary Fact: People who experience food insecurity are at greater risk of dying prematurely and living a shorter life after age 50. 👻Scary Fact: Children’s learning outcomes suffer when they regularly experience hunger. Food insecurity affects concentration, memory, mood, and motor skills, all of which a child needs to be able to be successful in school. Wholesome Wave Georgia exists to get fresh, healthy food from Georgia farmers to families in need. We may not be Ghostbusters, but we are here to fight food insecurity one pumpkin at a time. Happy Halloween!🎃

🧡A heartfelt thank you from the Wholesome Wave Georgia Team to everyone who made Southern Chefs Potluck such a great success in 2026. With your help we raised almost $400,000. 🤯 Thank you to our AMAZING guests, our in kind and financial donors, our auctioneer, Erin Kienzle of Giving4Good Events, our events committee, our event coordinator, Tailor & Table, the service staff from Southern National, our kitchen leads, Brandon Martin and Crystal Leach, our talented photographer, Jenna Shea Mobley, our gracious host, Serenbe, the chefs that donate the most delicious food year after year, the mixologists, and the volunteers. 🙏🙏🙏 🥰My personal heartfelt thanks goes out to the Wholesome Wave Georgia teammates who step out from behind the scenes (their comfort zone) to take on forward facing roles and run this event annually. Every single person who helped make this day perfect helps put fresh, healthy, locally grown produce on the tables of Georgia families in need. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. 🫂 @giving4goodevents @tailortable @southernnationalatl @chefbmart89 @csleach93 @serenbe

🔮Southern Chefs Potluck 2026 included the roll out of a stellar Mystery Wall brought to you by Delta Airlines and curated by WWG Events Chair, Mallory deGolian. 🎁A $125 Entry included a mystery bag containing a little something for everyone--anything from premium wines or spirits to CaseMate bags and Garnish & Gather gift cards. ✈️BONUS - Each Mystery Wall purchase was entered into a drawing to win 2 tickets to anywhere in the world that Delta flies. We sold out in record time and had so much fun along the way! 🙏Thank you to Delta, United Distributors, Beautiful Briny Sea, CaseMate, Fresh Harvest, Garnish & Gather, Little Light Co., Minhwa Spirits, Cathead Distillery, Murrell's Row Spirits, and all of the amazing participating restaurants. @delta @friendsofunited @beautifulbrinysea @casemate @freshharvest @garnishandgather @littlelightco @minhwaspirits @catheaddistillery @murrellsrowspirits

Hey Athens! What are you up to on Wednesday evening. We will be at 5&10 from 5:00-7:00 for Southern Sips. Enjoy a complimentary drink and light bites from Wholesome Wave Georgia Board Chair, Peter Dale, and chat with friends about our mission to get fresh, healthy food from local farmers to Georgia families in need, all while looking radiant in the golden hour sun. Tickets are $25 and are on sale now at the link in profile. We hope to see you there.

Thank you to Odum School of Ecology at UGA for hosting a screening of the fantastic documentary, Groundswell Film, in Athens on Thursday, followed by a panel discussion featuring Will Harris, WWG Fresh for Less partner, Jamila Norman, and Laura Turner Seydel. We walked away feeling inspired and grateful for the regenerative agriculture movement and the way it can return the land to biodiversity and cool our planet. 💚💚💚 @ugaecology @groundswell_film @whiteoakpastures @patchworkcityfarms @turnerfdninc

Psssst... We have another sneak peek at some of the Live Auction Lots for Southern Chefs Potluck. Take a look early and get your paddles ready. Which will you bid on? 🪄Explore the Magic of Quercus Nestled in the privacy of Georgia's hidden foothills, you and 5 friends will enjoy an incredible meal with wine pairings at farm-to-table restaurant, Uberto, the laboratory of Chef Ryan Smith and Kara Hidinger’s Michelin-starred Staplehouse. Before dinner, you’ll get an exclusive farm tour and pre-dinner drinks. VIP transportation provided to and from the venue. @quercus 🚐Buford Highway Culinary Tour Take a one-of-a-kind bus tour of the living mosaic of cultures along the BuHi corridor. Experience authentic international shopping, cuisine, and stories guided by Angie Mosier and Mallory deGolian, complete with "on-board beverages" by Greg Best. The Sunday of exploration for 10 will end with a sit-down feast at Kamayan. Surprise guests may help guide the tour along the way. @angiemosier @mallorydeg @deepthirst @kamayan_atl 🌮Who doesn’t love a taco party? You and 50-75 of your friends or colleagues will enjoy tacos and more from El Ponce and Local Three. You'll feast on delicious tacos packed with locally sourced ingredients -- including pork from Riverview Farms and produce from Fresh Harvest's farmer friends -- along with all the fixins, margaritas, and cervezas! You pick the venue or have the party on the patio at El Ponce. @elponceatl @localthree @riverview_farms @freshharvest 🛏️New FORTH Ward Staycation One lucky couple will experience the Old Fourth Ward in a totally new way. Begin your journey with a wine tasting at 3 Parks Wine, followed by a fantastic dinner at Il Premio and dessert at Big Softie. After a luxurious stay at The FORTH hotel, you’ll have leisurely lunch at O4W’s newest restaurant, Sargent. @3parkswine @ilpremioatlanta @bigsoftie @forthhotel @sargentatlanta

The doc is in with your Produce Prescription! 💊 A Produce Prescription (PPR) is a medical treatment or preventive service for eligible patients who may have diet-related disease or face food insecurity. Here’s how PPR Helps ⚕️Improve Healthcare outcomes 💲 Reduces Medical Spending ☺️ Increases patient satisfaction Wholesome Wave Georgia takes PPR programming further through the WWG Food For Health Program! Through our local work, both patients and local farmers benefit: participants get direct access to fresh, healthy, locally grown food and farmers increase their revenue. No two plates look the same because no two households are the same, but they'll be full of healthy veggies. Wholesome Wave Georgia is a proud member of the National Produce Prescription Collaborative since 2023 🧡 🔗Click the link in our bio to learn more about Food for Health and PPR! 🍎"

💙Today's SNAP Story is brought to you by Kaiser Permanente. For most of his life, independence wasn’t something Reggie thought about. It was simply how he lived. He worked, cared for himself, cooked his own meals, and never imagined that one day something as ordinary as opening a can or chopping an onion would become one of the hardest parts of his day. Now, those small tasks have become daily reminders that his body has changed faster than his spirit. When asked how he’s doing, he rarely pauses before answering, “I’ll make it.” He says it with a smile. He says it while gripping his wheelchair. He says it as he watches his neighbors freely come and go. He says it when his hands no longer have the strength to prepare the fresh fruits and vegetables he wishes he could eat. I learned he also says it because hope has become a habit and a life line for him. Although SNAP helps Reggie purchase food each month, the reality of living with limited mobility means his choices are different than many people assume. Fresh produce often requires peeling, chopping, lifting, and standing – simple tasks that have quietly slipped beyond his ability. Instead, he carefully selects shelf stable foods that he can prepare safely on his own, stretching every SNAP dollar while doing everything possible to remain independent. Oftentimes there’s a bias against users of SNAP purchasing shelf stable foods. But through this conversation, it’s clear to me that sustainability is the main goal. Whether the nourishment is fresh or canned, the key is stability. Food security isn’t always about food being available. Sometimes it’s about whether a person has the physical ability to prepare it. If you or someone you know are having trouble applying for government benefits, Wholesome Wave Georgia's SNAP Connection hotline is here for you: 678-631-7101.

Story time from Wholesome Wave Georgia Fresh for Less partner, Statesboro Main Street Farmers Market: "One of the Statesboro Farmers Market’s founding beliefs is that food is an essential ingredient for building community and creating connections. Through in-person outreach and educational videos, we have worked tirelessly to increase access to fresh, healthy, local produce while helping community members feel more confident preparing and enjoying seasonal foods. Thanks to Wholesome Wave Georgia’s Innovation and Cultivation Grant, we produced a series of cooking videos designed to answer a question we often hear from our community: “What can I do with that?” Although we initially planned to produce 12 videos, we ultimately completed 9. We chose to prioritize the quality, clarity, and usefulness of the content rather than risk compromising the project’s purpose with too many videos. Through this project, we learned that producing high-quality videos requires significantly more time, editing, and labor than we originally anticipated. We look forward to continuing this work with those lessons in mind. There’s often anxiety in working with unfamiliar foods. To make trying new ingredients easier, our videos include written instructions, clear step-by-step visuals, and additional information about the ingredients featured in each recipe. While we don’t have a direct way to measure the effectiveness of the cooking videos, we saw a substantial increase in distribution and redemption of Fresh for Less incentives, and an increase in EBT transactions between 2024 and 2025. We believe these numbers reflect the growth of community connections and relationships we’ve developed. We are deeply grateful to Wholesome Wave Georgia for its continued support of our mission and for helping make this project possible! " Thanks for partnering with us, y'all. We love you! @mainstreetfarmersmarket

Wholesome Wave Georgia is proud to have The Food Mill in Columbus as a WWG Food for Health partner site. 🚚 Their hardworking team delivers fresh, locally grown produce and pantry staples directly to neighborhoods with limited access to healthy food, supporting local farmers with every stop. ✨New Market Stop: The Food Mill Mobile Market is expanding to a new market stop in Pine Mountain, bringing fresh fruits and veggies from trusted regional farms to a new community. 🍎Double Your Benefits: Buy fresh local produce and double your SNAP benefits to put more healthy food on tables for families and more money in the pockets of local farmers! 📅Check @thefoodmillcolumbus to view their September Mobile Market Calendar.

Thank you for joining us for Southern Sips at Serenbe last week! 🥂 We are grateful for your support and for spending quality time with those who believe in our mission to bring fresh, healthy fruits and vegetables to Georgia families in need. Thank you to our sponsors for helping us bring it all together, and Chef Bour for the delicious light bites! 🏡Farmhouse at Serenbe 🍺 Piedmont Brewing 🍸Cathead Distillery Missed out or want to join us again? We hope to see you at the Southern Chefs Potluck on October 4th for an amazing lineup of chefs, craft cocktails, and an exciting live auction you don’t want to miss. Tickets are on sale now in our bio! 🎟️ @serenbefarmhouse @piedmontbrewery @catheaddistillery

We raised $5,002.89 for Georgia farmers!🥳 Your support helps farmers make fresh, healthy food affordable for families in need, matching SNAP/EBT spending at farmers markets while putting more into farmers' pockets. 🧑‍🌾 We are grateful for your help in continuing to support small, local independent farmers, and we are grateful for everyone who donated to our Farmers Market Week 2026 campaign.

“Farmers markets are fantastic venues to bring people together. At the SFM, we want people to love their food, love their farmers, and love their community.” - Kelsie Cobb, Statesboro Farmers Market Manager We want to thank the Statesboro Farmers Market for the hard work they do to help families eat fresh, healthy produce. We're thrilled that they're partnering with us for our National Farmers Market Week fundraiser. @mainstreetfarmersmarket Funds from WWG's campaign go directly to local farmers, who then use those funds to make healthy food more affordable for Georgia families in need. Help us put more money into the wallets and pocketbooks of local farmers! Tap the link in our bio to make a difference in your community today! 🧑‍🌾

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