The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities

The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities by Will Allen (Author), Charles Wilson (Contributor). A pioneering city farmer and MacArthur “Genius Award” winner points the way in which to building a new meals system that can feed-and heal-damaged communities.

The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen had no intention of ever turning into a farmer himself. However after years in skilled basketball and as an government for Kentucky Fried Rooster and Procter & Gamble, Allen cashed in his retirement fund for a two-acre plot a half mile away from Milwaukee’s largest public housing project. The realm was a meals desert with solely comfort stores and fast-meals restaurants to serve the needs of local residents.

In the face of monetary challenges and daunting odds, Allen constructed the nation’s preeminent urban farm-a food and academic heart that now produces enough greens and fish yr-spherical to feed 1000's of people. Employing young people from the neighboring housing undertaking and group, Rising Energy has sought to prove that local food systems will help troubled youths, dismantle racism, create jobs, carry urban and rural communities closer collectively, and enhance public health. Immediately, Allen’s group helps develop neighborhood food systems throughout the country.

An eco-classic within the making, The Good Meals Revolution is the story of Will’s personal journey, the lives he has touched, and a grassroots movement that's changing the way in which our nation eats.

Michael Pollan helped our understanding of the "good food" movement go mainstream---however till now, mostly unsung, have been efforts to get good food to the individuals who need it most (i.e. Past Entire Foods shoppers and the usual "crunchy" milieu). For almost 20 years, Will Allen has been rising good food in communities that have little access to it and instructing others to do the same. Allen's story exhibits us how rising good meals can heal, providing all the things from good diet and a way of non-public empowerment to inexperienced jobs and the abilities wanted to fill them. Trustworthy personal stories, together with Allen's own, make this a genuinely compelling read.

As a small farmer in an urbanized neighborhood, I was very excited to learn a more in-depth guide about Will Allen. I found this ebook to be very well-written with pretty side stories concerning the intriguing those that play vital roles in his business and life. I'd extremely recommend this e-book to anybody fascinated by city or small plot farming, to these interested by guaranteeing healthy meals is on the market across the economic spectrum and to Will Allen fans excited about his decisions and his life. 

The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities 

Will Allen (Author), Charles Wilson (Contributor)

272 pages

Gotham (May 10, 2012)

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