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Project EMMA When you’re ambling around downtown Asheville, you probably don’t realize you’re literally underneath Thanks to a partnership with the Council on Aging of Buncombe County, this garden is a reality. ASAP is involved with an innovative project that’s bringing access to local food and new opportunities for exercise to older adults in the community. Project EMMA (Eat Better, Move More, Age Well) is funded by a grant awarded to the Council on Aging by Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC Foundation. ASAP’s role as a partner in the project is to facilitate increased access to local food for residents of two downtown apartment buildings and clients of the Council on Aging’s Senior Meal Program, while the YWCA facilitates exercise opportunities for seniors.
Walking trips to downtown tailgate markets will provide an opportunity for seniors to get out for some exercise while feasting their eyes and taste buds on the bounty of local produce available. Meanwhile, the project hopes to mobilize enough support to bring the USDA Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program to Buncombe County, providing vouchers for qualifying seniors to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at local tailgate markets. If you have questions about the project, please contact Libby Hinsley at libby@asapconnections.org.
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a garden growing noodle beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, salad mix, radishes, lavender, rosemary, lemon balm, basil, nasturtium, and more…but you are! Look up to the tallest building you can see (Battery Park Apartments), and imagine a beautiful garden on its roof. 
In addition to weekly activities at the Roof Garden at Battery Park Apartments, including tea and pesto making, ASAP is connecting older adults with fresh, local food in a variety of ways. The Buncombe County Child Services kitchen, which is contracted to prepare the meals for the Council on Aging’s six Senior Meal sites around the county, is now incorporating local produce from Madison Farms into their meal preparation for seniors. 
Farm field trips will connect participants in a direct way with where some of this food is grown, not to mention memories that many have of living on farms. Nutrition talks and simple cooking demonstrations are also planned over the course of the next year to make eating more fruits and vegetables easy and worthwhile.