Good Food Revolution Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities

Name: Good Food Revolution Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities
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ISBN: 9781592407606

ISBN-10: 1592407609

ISBN-13: 9781592407606

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Authors: Will Allen, Charles Wilson

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A pioneering urban farmer and MacArthur Genius Award-Winner points the way to building a new food system that can feed- and heal- 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, he cashed in his retirement fund for a two-acre plot just outside 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 locals.Despite financial challenges and daunting odds, Allen built the country's preeminent urban farm-a food and educational center that now…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 7/2/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Foreword



Escape


Return


Promises


Trial By Fire



Roots


Black Flight


Beginning


A Snorting Terror of Rippling Muscle


Guess Who's Coming To Dinner


Back to Earth



Sweat Equity


Black Gold


A Little Hope, A Lot of Will


Homecomings



The Revolution


Overnight Success


New Frontiers


The Dream


Acknowledgments


Credits


Notes


Book Club / Study Guide