Whole Cities | Healthy Food for All

Dr. Akua Woolbright, Ph.D., is an authoritative expert on nutrition with a passion for helping individuals and communities create healthier lives. Her extensive work in underserved communities has empowered people of all ages to overcome harmful eating habits and to prevent and reverse disease through plant-based diets. 

As National Nutrition Program Director at Whole Cities Foundation, in addition to teaching weekly classes in Newark, New Jersey, and the Englewood community in Chicago, Dr. Woolbright runs the foundation’s Let’s Talk Food Nutrition and Culinary Education Center in Midtown Detroit, where hundreds of students attend healthy eating lectures, cooking demonstrations, and support groups each week.

Landmark Training Development Company from Memphis, TN has been a Whole Cities Community First Grant partner from 2018-2020. Listen to an audio story to learn about their urban farm, year-round indoor farmers market and several gardens which contain a catfish pond, fruit tree orchard, chicken coop, beehives, hydroponics and four high tunnels.

Learn more about the Whole Cities Community First Grant here.

Get to know Wasatch Community Gardens in Salt Lake City, UT.  Since 1989, they have offered garden space, educational programs, and community events to empower people to grow, harvest, preserve, and prepare fresh, healthy food. 

Learn more at https://wasatchgardens.org/.

Get to know Truly Living Well in Atlanta, GA, committed to growing food, connecting people to healthy food, and building equitable and sustainable food communities. Their work includes Farmers' Markets, Grower Boot Camps, Growing Families and the Farm on Wheels mobile market.

Learn more at https://www.trulylivingwell.com/.

Get to know Roots Rising in Pittsfield, MA. On a mission to empower youth and build community through food and farming, their vision is to lift up teens as community changemakers and to strengthen the local food system through the transformational power of meaningful work.

Learn more at https://www.rootsrising.org/. 

Get to know the Fresh Stop Bus, a Whole Cities Foundation Community First Grant partner in Orlando, FL. Since 2015, this mobile market has served 16 Orange County neighborhoods with barriers to healthy food access. In addition to being a resource for fresh fruits and vegetables, the bus also offers free nutrition information and free recipe cards. 

Learn more at https://www.thefreshstopbus.com/.

Hear from Whole Cities Foundation community partners, Footprint Farms and Newark Science and Sustainability, to learn about healthy food access and find out what happens when everyone has a seat at the fresh, healthy food table.