Sed Rowe of Rowe Organic Farms and Jon & Rhandi Altidor of The Better Buggy

On this week’s episode of the Atlanta Foodcast, host Candace Dantes is speaking to Sed Rowe of Rowe Organics. Then Mary Elizabeth Kidd, Georgia Organics’ Communications Director catches up with Jon and Rhandi Altidor of The Better Buggy. 

Candace Dantes joins the Atlanta Foodcast with her first hosted segment today talking with Sed Rowe of Rowe Organics in Southwest Georgia. Candace and Sed connected through their respective work with the Black Farmers’ Network (blackfarmersnetwork.com/. They connected over his role pioneering and coaching around hemp in Georgia, marketing and expanding awareness of his business, and what it means to him to be a young, Black farmer in the organic agriculture community of Georgia. Sed is one of the founding farmers of the Georgia Organic Peanut Association (organicpeanuts.farm/). You can connect with Rower Organics at roweorganic.com/ and on Instagram @roweorganic.  

Next up, we talk to Jon and Rhandi Altidor, founders & co-owners of The Better Buggy. The Better Buggy was established in May 2020 as a grocery shopping and delivery service for Black-owned farms and grocery stores throughout the Greater Atlanta area…and beyond. We spoke about starting a business during the pandemic, navigating the logistics and relationships of a food business, as well as why it’s so important to them to be a sales platform for Black farmers in Georgia. You can connect with The Better Buggy at thebetterbuggy.com and on social media at facebook.com/TheBetterBuggy and @TheBetterBuggy on Instagram.