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A pioneering civic rancher and MacArthur “Genius Award” leader points a approach to building a new food complement that can feed—and heal—broken communities.
The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen had no goal of ever apropos a rancher himself. But after years in veteran basketball and as an executive for Kentucky Fried Chicken and Procter & Gamble, Allen cashed in his retirement account for a two-acre tract a half mile divided from Milwaukee’s largest open housing project. The area was a food dried with usually preference stores and fast-food restaurants to offer a needs of internal residents.
In a face of financial hurdles and daunting odds, Allen built a country’s preeminent civic farm—a food and educational core that now produces adequate vegetables and fish year-round to feed thousands of people. Employing immature people from a adjacent housing plan and community, Growing Power has sought to infer that internal food systems can assistance uneasy youths, idle racism, emanate jobs, move civic and farming communities closer together, and urge open health. Today, Allen’s classification helps rise village food systems opposite a country.
An eco-classic in a making, The Good Food Revolution is a story of Will’s personal journey, a lives he has touched, and a grassroots transformation that is changing a approach a republic eats.
The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen had no goal of ever apropos a rancher himself. But after years in veteran basketball and as an executive for Kentucky Fried Chicken and Procter & Gamble, Allen cashed in his retirement account for a two-acre tract a half mile divided from Milwaukee’s largest open housing project. The area was a food dried with usually preference stores and fast-food restaurants to offer a needs of internal residents.
In a face of financial hurdles and daunting odds, Allen built a country’s preeminent civic farm—a food and educational core that now produces adequate vegetables and fish year-round to feed thousands of people. Employing immature people from a adjacent housing plan and community, Growing Power has sought to infer that internal food systems can assistance uneasy youths, idle racism, emanate jobs, move civic and farming communities closer together, and urge open health. Today, Allen’s classification helps rise village food systems opposite a country.
An eco-classic in a making, The Good Food Revolution is a story of Will’s personal journey, a lives he has touched, and a grassroots transformation that is changing a approach a republic eats.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #107655 in Books
- Published on: 2012-05-10
- Released on: 2012-05-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 272 pages
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After timid from veteran basketball and executive positions during Kentucky Fried Chicken and Procter & Gamble, Will Allen became a CEO of Growing Power. He lives in Milwaukee.
Charles Wilson is a publisher and a coauthor with Eric Schlosser of a #1 New York Times bestselling children’s book Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to
Know About Fast Food.
By Will Allen
Charles Wilson is a publisher and a coauthor with Eric Schlosser of a #1 New York Times bestselling children’s book Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to
Know About Fast Food.
By Will Allen
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