Highlighting our 2023 Farmer Champion Award Winners — The Grime

Little Tart Bakeshop  

Farmer Champion Group Award, selected in partnership with The Running Farms Fund 

The Farmer Champion Group Award began in 2022 after we expanded our programming and learned that there have been quite a lot of Farmer Champions who deserved reputation past native meals procurement for his or her contributions to the great meals neighborhood. We additionally sought after to focus on neighborhood spouse organizations that we appreciate.  

This 12 months, we partnered with the Running Farms Fund, a challenge from the Conservation Fund, that protects at-risk farmland and creates a affected person and equitable pathway to reasonably priced farm possession for next-generation farmers. The Running Farms Fund permits for extra resilient regional meals techniques to take root around the country, which is able to correctly feed thriving native economies by means of supporting the growth of sustainable agriculture and offering larger get admission to to wholesome, nutritious meals. In Georgia, Love is Love Cooperative Farm, Atlanta Harvest, International Growers Community, Little Fox Farm, Delight Street, and Snapfinger Farm all expanded their operations during the Running Farms Fund.  

In combination, we selected our 2023 Farmer Champion Group Award winner – Little Tart Bakeshop. Little Tart Bakeshop used to be based by means of Sarah O’Brien and has grown from a unmarried stand at a farmers’ marketplace into 3 storefronts throughout southeast Atlanta whilst proceeding to promote to farmers markets across the town.  

We selected Little Tart Bakeshop as a result of their exceptional dedication to supporting their neighborhood on the other hand they are able to. From webhosting an annual “Cookie Take hold of” in toughen of Deliberate Parenthood Southeast to co-founding Southern Eating places for Racial Justice, a company giving monetary toughen to Black-owned meals companies within the South, Sarah has made her mark in provider to her fellow neighborhood contributors. Little Tart has participated in Healthy Wave Georgia’s annual Southern Chef’s Potluck or even held a fundraiser for the Georgia Organics Farmer Fund within the wake of 2022’s Iciness Hurricane Elliott.  

Sarah and her workforce perceive the function they are able to play in uplifting their buddies, circle of relatives, and neighbors during the energy of scrumptious pastries. Georgia Organics and the Running Farms Fund are satisfied to offer Little Tart Bakeshop with the 2023 Farmer Champion Group Award!