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How can we make healthy foods affordable and accessible to everyone?
Will Allen, urban farming pioneer, holds the key. Determined to challenge the disparities in food access and quality in our country and across the world, Allen created Community Food Centers - local places where people learn to grow, process and distribute their own organic produce - through the non-profit organization Growing Power. He established his first urban farm in Milwaukee, an aerial no larger than a small supermarket, featuring 20,000 plants and vegetables, fish, chickens, goats, ducks, and bees.
Since then, his program has transformed the lives of local communities nationwide by sharing knowledge and connecting individuals. Will Allen's goal is simple but life-changing: to grow food, to grow minds, and to grow community.
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Will Allen is a pioneer in the urban farming movement and the founder of Growing Power. His programs transform the lives of low-income families by providing high-quality jobs and healthy affordable foods for all residents in the community. Allen has a simple but life-changing goal: to grow food, to grow minds, and to grow community.
By synthesizing a variety of low cost farming technologies, Growing Power produces vast amounts of food year-round on two acres of land in the inner-city of Milwaukee.
Allen considers quality food to be a civil rights issue and has been determined to challenge the disparities in food access and quality in our country and across the world. Growing Power has farm sites nationwide and leads workshops to teach its methods to people around the world.
Allen has been awarded the MacArthur Genius prize, leadership grants from The Ford Foundation and The Kellogg Foundation and was recognized by Fast Company Magazine as "one of the 100 most creative people of 2009." He has been featured in the New York Times, Better Homes and Gardens, The Chicago Sun Times and ABC News.
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