We already welcome thousands of visitors for the Masters, Peach Jam, Ironman, and other major events. But how intentionally are we connecting those visitors to our artists, musicians, farmers, makers, neighborhoods, and small businesses?
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As communities search for practical ways to strengthen public health, education, and local economies, community gardens are quietly proving that civic engagement doesn't always begin in a meeting room or at City Hall. Sometimes it begins with a shovel, a shared purpose, and a willingness to grow something together.
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After a very difficult 2023 — losing my mother, receiving my own cancer diagnosis, and moving through treatment — I found myself slowly rebuilding my sense of rhythm, purpose, and connection. Music helped me breathe again. Art helped me notice beauty again. Community helped me remember that healing is not something we do alone.
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"We're seeing communities think more like systems," said Karen Gordon, founder of Growing Augusta and publisher of Urban Pro Weekly. "A farmers market isn't just about food anymore. It's also about entrepreneurship, public health, neighborhood development and community gathering. The same project is serving multiple purposes."
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Audacity of Humility is a community conversation for people who are ready to stop confusing humility with shrinking.
The question is simple but powerful: What if building boldly is not a betrayal of community, but one of the ways we come back better equipped to serve it with clarity, purpose, and rooted power together?
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Before you ask people to invest their labor in a teaching farm, invest time in building the systems that support them.
Inside you'll find governance tools, startup checklists, readiness assessments, onboarding systems, agreements, community engagement strategies, operational frameworks, and perhaps most importantly, lessons learned from observing a teaching farm launch in real time.
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This year’s theme, From Farm to Fork: The Community Table Edition, honors the people, places, and traditions behind every plate. From community gardens and farmers markets to restaurants, food trucks, caterers, bakers, chefs, growers, and neighborhood food leaders, Augusta Restaurant Week 2026 is designed to bring the community together around food, story, and local economic support.
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Because relationships are infrastructure — and good work grows stronger when we steward them with care.
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Many of us are doing important work in our neighborhoods, nonprofits, churches, schools, markets, civic groups, small businesses, coalitions, and creative communities. But too often, the work lives in our heads, in scattered notebooks, in text messages, in event flyers, in social media posts, or in memories.
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But as Augusta talks about data centers, industrial uses, infrastructure, and future growth, we should also make room for another type of land use: urban agriculture.
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