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). The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen had no intention of ever becoming a farmer himself. But after years in skilled basketball and as an executive for Kentucky Fried Hen 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 world was a meals desert with solely comfort shops and quick-meals restaurants to serve the wants of native residents.


Within the face of financial challenges and daunting odds, Allen constructed the nation’s preeminent city farm-a food and academic middle that now produces enough greens and fish yr-round to feed thousands of people. Employing younger individuals from the neighboring housing challenge and neighborhood, Growing Energy has sought to show that native meals programs can help troubled youths, dismantle racism, create jobs, deliver urban and rural communities nearer collectively, and enhance public health. Immediately, Allen’s group helps develop neighborhood food techniques across the country.

 An eco-traditional within the making, The Good Food Revolution is the story of Will’s private journey, the lives he has touched, and a grassroots motion that is changing the way in which our nation eats. As a small farmer in an urbanized community, I was very excited to learn a extra in-depth book about Will Allen. I found this book to be very effectively-written with lovely facet stories concerning the intriguing people who play vital roles in his enterprise and life. I would highly suggest this book to anyone fascinated with city or small plot farming, to those serious about making certain healthy meals is offered throughout the economic spectrum and to Will Allen fans inquisitive about his decisions and his life. Michael Pollan helped our understanding of the "good meals" motion go mainstream---however till now, principally unsung, have been efforts to get good meals to the people who want it most (i.e. past Complete Foods shoppers and the usual "crunchy" milieu). For practically 20 years, Will Allen has been rising good meals in communities which have little entry to it and instructing others to do the same. Allen's story shows us how rising good food can heal, providing all the pieces from good vitamin and a sense of private empowerment to green jobs and the skills needed to fill them. Sincere private tales, together with Allen's personal, make this a genuinely compelling read.

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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