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

Urban farming is the future of farming!

Currently, one of the issues we face as a society are these combined destructive elements of industrial, large-scale agriculture. This is a story of a professional basketball player to a big executive with Kentucky Fried Chicken and Proctor and Gamble to now an urban farmer in the city of Milwaukee. Will Allen turned his retirement fund into a two-acre plot investment of passion in hopes of transforming an urban food desert into an effervescent community rich of colorful fruits and vegetables the people can thrive on. Owner of an organization called Growing Power, which is an internationally-recognized trailblazer in sustainable urban farming, Will Allen does a remarkable job in providing motivation and insight to create, build, and maintain a better food system. It’s through this lens of an African American experience on how the son of a sharecropper meant to escape the life of a farmer, only to learn he never really could, or wanted to. Not only is Allen’s own story rich of determination and survival, but it’s also the incredible people he meets along the way to assist him in his cultivating new food movement. This book is more than just a story, it’s also a way to get people more involved with food and how to grow it, cultivate it, sustain it, and enjoy it in the process. Its practicality can be incorporated into classrooms of schools all over the world. Society needs more passionate individuals with a desire to make a difference and change that involves leaving this world better for the next generation. Every life serves a purpose. Reading books and diving into the lives of others such as this can help discover your own purpose. Will Allen states “urban farming is the future of farming.” This book is a great way for kids to get involved and how to grow food, know where it comes from, and how to create a sustainable future in farming. Read more