First Friday Pop-Up Market Begins April 6 in Bowdon
Friday, March 30, 2018
Residents throughout west Georgia and east Alabama will have another place to find fresh fruits and vegetables when a new pop-up market opens in Bowdon this spring. 
Bowdon Area United Christian Ministries (BAUCM), in partnership with Tanner Health System’s Get Healthy, Live Well, is hosting a First Friday Pop-Up Market starting April 6. The market will be held on the first Friday of each month from 3 to 7 p.m. at the BAUCM Service Center, 190 Grammar School Road in Bowdon. The last day of the market will be Oct. 5.
Fruits and vegetables will be available on a “pay what you can” basis. The market’s motto is, “Take what you want. Pay what you can. Eat what you take.”
Volunteers from Get Healthy, Live Well will also be providing cooking demonstrations and recipe handouts.
“Get Healthy, Live Well is excited to partner with Bowdon Area United Christian Ministries in helping improve access to food and nutrition education in west Georgia,” said Tiffany Landry, nutrition program coordinator at Get Healthy, Live Well.
The market is one of several initiatives funded by a nearly $400,000 grant that Get Healthy, Live Well received from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Community Food Projects Competitive Grant Program (CFPCGP), administered by the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), is helping to make it easier to find healthy, nutritious food in west Georgia. The CFPCGP provides funding to organizations so they can develop local solutions to food security and increase access to healthy food for low-income communities.
For more information, contact BAUCM at 770.258.0303 or Bowdon Coffee Roasters at 770.258.1606. More information on Get Healthy, Live Well — including upcoming health opportunities and ongoing programs — is available at GetHealthyLiveWell.org.