The Good Food Revolution

Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities

De: Will Allen, Charles Wilson, Eric Schlosser - Foreword

Narrado por: Mirron Willis

A pioneering urban farmer and MacArthur "Genius Award" winner points the way to building a new food system that can feed - and heal - broken communities.

The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen had no intention of ever becoming a farmer himself. But after years in professional basketball and as an executive for Kentucky Fried Chicken 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 area was a food desert with only convenience stores and fast-food restaurants to serve the needs of local residents.

In the face of financial challenges and daunting odds, Allen built the country's preeminent urban farm - a food and educational center that now produces enough vegetables and fish year-round to feed thousands of people. Employing young people from the neighboring housing project and community, Growing Power has sought to prove that local food systems can help troubled youths, dismantle racism, create jobs, bring urban and rural communities closer together, and improve public health. Today, Allen's organization helps develop community food systems across the country.

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

©2012 William E. Allen (P)2018 Tantor

Inspiring story

Loved hearing how a journey in sports took a left turn toward growing and building a food oasis in a hopeless desert. Great ideas and tips on building your own home garden. Oftentimes wandered off topic a bit w longer than necessary background stories but I understand the desire to showcase the ppl who helped along his journey. Over all good listen.

This story teaches how to take back the soil

This incredible story shows what the power of one individual can have on a movement!

Hope for the future

Excellent ideas, uplifting stories and a competing case showing what can be done to make the worl a better place,