Fertile Ground

10/10/2026

🌱💛 THIS IS WHAT COMMUNITY CARE LOOKS LIKE.

Today, because of the generosity of our supporters, Fertile Ground Incorporated was able to provide a grocery delivery to a mother of two who reached out for food assistance. Without reliable transportation, simply getting to the grocery store presented another barrier to meeting her family's needs.

But today, that was one less thing she had to worry about.

Food insecurity isn't always about the absence of food. Sometimes it's about access, transportation, financial hardship, or simply needing a little support to get through a difficult season.

This is why we do the work.

Our direct assistance and mutual aid efforts are just one of the ways your donations help us show up for individuals and families in our community. Every contribution, whether large or small, helps us respond to real needs with compassion, dignity, and tangible support.

We believe that community care is a shared responsibility. We all deserve to know that when life becomes difficult, there are people willing to extend a hand.

💛 To everyone who donates, shares our work, and believes in our mission, THANK YOU. Your generosity makes moments like this possible.

🌱 Want to help us continue supporting families and individuals in need? Consider making a donation to Fertile Ground Incorporated. Together, we can continue planting seeds of stability, nourishment, and collective care.

www.fertilegroundincorporated.com

10/10/2026

09/26/2026

✨ Tomorrow is the big magical day! ✨

Fertile Ground Incorporated is ready to welcome you to **Fae, Fairies, Family & Seahorses**—an evening where imagination, Afrofuturism, nature, and community come together.

Bring your family, wear your wings, and explore live music, food, local vendors, wellness resources, fairy paths, Seahorse Village, and our costume contest with live voting! 🧚🏾‍♂️🌿

📅 Saturday, September 26 | 4–9 PM
📍 Louise Suggs Memorial Park
6145 Spring Street, Austell, GA 30168
🎟️ **Festival admission is free!** Costume contest entry is $10.

https://www.fertilegroundincorporated.com/event-details/fae-fairies-family-seahorses

We’ve been dreaming, planning, and working toward this day—and tomorrow, we get to share it with you. See you in the park! 💫

09/18/2026

FREE FOOD AVAILABLE IN AUSTELL 🌱

Fresh eggplant + hamburger buns are available FREE while supplies last!

Thanks to Project Keep ’Em Off The Streets (PKOTS), two cases of fresh eggplant and hamburger buns have been delivered for community distribution through our growing Community Food Recovery Collaborative with Fertile Ground Incorporated.

🥬 Fresh Eggplant — FREE
🍞 Hamburger Buns — FREE
📍 Pickup:

The Alchemist Den
2740 Broad Street
Austell, GA 30106
Wed-Sat 11am-7pm
Sunday 12pm-6pm

No purchase necessary. No cost. While supplies last.

This is exactly what food recovery can look like: good food redirected into the community instead of going unused.

Through the collaboration between PKOTS and Fertile Ground Incorporated, we are working to connect available food with our neighbors, reduce unnecessary food waste, and build a more consistent community food-access network right here in Austell.

The Alchemist Den is serving as a community pickup location as we continue developing the infrastructure to receive and distribute more fresh produce and other food resources.

If your household can use some eggplant or a pack of buns, come get some. And if you know a neighbor, family, senior, student, or community member who could use them, please share this post.

💚 FREE FOOD. SHARED RESOURCES. STRONGER COMMUNITY.

Availability is first come, first served and limited to what has been donated/recovered. Be sure to join our SMS/Email Notification list....

09/15/2026

✨ SpiritGifts — Gifts Illuminating Our Spirit ✨

🫶🏾💫 SPEAK LIFE. CREATE INTENTION. CARRY A LITTLE LIGHT WITH YOU.

We’re excited to welcome SpiritGifts, created by local artisan Mimi Brown, to Fae, Fairies, Family & Seahorses!

With the beautiful motto “Gifts illuminating our spirit,” SpiritGifts creates handmade pieces rooted in mindfulness, encouragement and spiritual well-being—from jewelry and wrapped stones to affirmation picture frames and tiny “breathe bottles.” 🌿✨

But Mimi isn't only bringing things to discover and take home.

Festival guests will also have an opportunity to create their own daily affirmation, transforming a few intentional words into something they can carry beyond the festival.

And we love that. 💛

Mental wellness can be nurtured in big ways, but also through small practices: taking a moment to breathe, speaking kindly to ourselves, setting an intention, creating something with our hands, or simply remembering what we need to hear when the day gets difficult.

That spirit of mindfulness, creativity and affirmation fits beautifully within the world we're creating at Fae, Fairies, Family & Seahorses—where wellness can coexist with art, nature, imagination, culture and play.

Stop by SpiritGifts to meet Mimi, explore her handmade creations, choose a little something that speaks to your spirit, and create an affirmation of your own. ✨

Thank you, Mimi and SpiritGifts, for joining our growing festival community and helping us create a space where wonder isn't only something we see—it can be something we cultivate within ourselves.

📅 Saturday, September 26, 2026 | 4–9 PM
📍 Louise Suggs Memorial Park | Austell, GA
🎟️ FREE COMMUNITY ADMISSION

In Community. Growing Communities Together.

09/14/2026

TheoryCharms Alternatives & Adornments — Crystals, Adornment & Reflection

🔮💎 A LITTLE MAGIC. A LITTLE REFLECTION. A LITTLE SOMETHING TO TAKE HOME.

We're excited to welcome TheoryCharms Alternatives & Adornments to Fae, Fairies, Family & Seahorses!

TheoryCharms will bring an eclectic mix of crystals, handmade adornments and cartomancy readings to our Community Vendor Marketplace—including ocean hagstone necklaces, spell-jar necklaces and tiny shaped crystal giveaways for festival guests.

And yes—the little ones can get in on some of the crystal magic too. ✨ Their complimentary miniature shaped crystals are available for children, while readings will be reserved for adults.

At the heart of TheoryCharms' work is something deeper than adornment: creating opportunities for people to reflect, reconsider situations and approach life's circumstances with greater mental strength and perspective.

That spirit of curiosity, reflection and alternative ways of understanding ourselves feels right at home among the fae, forests, illuminated pathways and wonder we're creating for September 26.

Thank you, TheoryCharms Alternatives & Adornments, for joining our growing festival family!

Find them on Instagram:

📅 Saturday, September 26 | 4–9 PM
📍 Louise Suggs Memorial Park
🎟️ FREE COMMUNITY ADMISSION

09/13/2026

Neurojuice — Wellness You Can Sip

🥬🍍🍓 FUEL THE BODY. NOURISH THE MIND.

Something fresh is joining the festival! Meet Neurojuice, one of the newest participants coming to Fae, Fairies, Family & Seahorses.

Neurojuice is a wellness-focused cold-pressed juice brand bringing an assortment of fresh flavor combinations, wellness shots and plant-forward refreshments to Louise Suggs Memorial Park.

Festival offerings are expected to include combinations of pineapple, apple, lemon, ginger, orange, grape, pear, strawberry, coconut water, cucumber, celery, Swiss chard and kale, alongside sea moss shots, ginger shots and pineapple-ginger drinks.

Their philosophy is simple: fuel your body and mind the right way.

Neurojuice's participation adds another dimension to something we care deeply about at Fertile Ground: making wellness feel accessible, enjoyable and present in the everyday spaces where community already gathers.

Come hungry for community—and thirsty for something good. 🌱🥤

Thank you, Neurojuice, for joining us!

📅 September 26 | 4–9 PM
📍 Louise Suggs Memorial Park | Austell
🎟️ FREE