Bobby L. Wilson

Bobby L. Wilson is President and CEO of Metro Atlanta Urban Farm in Atlanta, GA. He founded the five-acre farm as a teaching tool, economic empowerment zone and food production site for the southwest Metropolitan Atlanta area. In addition, Bobby serves as Program Director for the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension/Atlanta Urban Gardening Program (AUGP), offering gardening instruction and support to some three hundred gardens located at public housing complexes, shelters, schools, churches and elder care facilities in Atlanta. He is also President of the American Community Gardening Association, dedicated to increasing and enhancing community gardening across the United States and Canada. With a strong belief in getting back to basics, Bobby works to promote the benefits of urban agriculture in food and job insecure areas.