COME GROW WITH US INC

What they do

U.S. FARMERS NEED THE SUPPORT of THE GREATER COMMUNITY to GROW and PROSPER. WITH 80% of AMERICANS LIVING URBAN SETTINGS, THE VAST MAJORITY of CONSUMERS DONT HAVE A STRONG CONNECTION to RURAL FARMERS and THE COMMODITIES THEY PRODUCE. MOST URBAN DWELLERS DONT THINK ABOUT WHERE and HOW THEIR FOOD is GROWN and RAISED. CONVENIENCE FOODS, FAST FOODS and PACKAGED FOODS WITH HIGH SUGAR and FAT HAVE REPLACED FRESHLY PREPARED MEALS. NOT ONLY DOES THIS THREATEN PUBLIC HEALTH, BUT IT ALSO NEGATIVELY IMPACTS AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIES. CONSUMERS ARE BUYING FEWER AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS and FARMERS ARE LOSING REVENUE. WITH LIMITED RESOURCES and OPPORTUNITIES for MARKETING, FARMERS ARE LOOKING for WAYS to PROMOTE THEIR PRODUCTS to CONSUMERS. THE GOAL of "COME GROW WITH US-FRESH DISTRICT AGRITOURISM AT "THE BATTERY ATLANTA" PROJECT is to INCREASE AWARENESS, SUPPORT and CONSUMPTION of GEORGIA AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. to ACHIEVE THIS GOAL CGWU, A NONPROFIT AGRICULTURE EDUCATION PROGRAM, is PARTNERING WITH FRESH