During last month’s Commercial Urban Ag (CUA) Training at Growing Power, a crew from ABC News for Diane Sawyer spent two days with Growing Power staffs and Will. The segment aired yesterday, on ABC News features one of our loyal restaurateur -Jan Kelly of Meritage and thirty hardworking students from CUA. The CUA group got their hands dirty and installed our Maple Tree Garden this year lead by Sarah Christman. The garden is now refreshed with new worm castings, planted and ready for the summer. We will be posting those pictures soon, in the meantime, please check out the story on ABC news Diane Sawyer.
Milwaukee (May 17, 2010) – Just two months after First Lady Michelle Obama asked him to stand with her in Washington as one of four Americans speaking in support of the launch of her “Let’s Move!” initiative to end childhood obesity, Will Allen of Growing Power has again been invited to the White House, this time as a guest at a dinner to honor the official state visit of the president of Mexico.
The state dinner is scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday.
The invitation, received Thursday, read: “The President and Mrs. Obama request the pleasure of the company of Mr. Will Allen at a dinner in honor of His Excellency Filipe Calderon Hinojosa, President of Mexico, and Mrs. Margarita Zavala.”
“It is an absolute honor to be invited by the president and Mrs. Obama to such a prestigious and important event,” Allen said. “It will give me an opportunity to continue building important relationships that will help drive our Good Food Revolution. I’m really looking forward to attending.”
The invitation capped a heady week for Allen. On Saturday, in the midst of hosting Growing Power’s Fifth Annual National and International Urban Agriculture Workshop, with more than 100 attendees participating in intensive training, he took time off from his duties to accept an honorary doctor fine arts degree from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and to deliver the commencement address to 140 graduates of the institute.
It’s concrete (and we don’t just mean the pavement). From hoop dreams to eating greens. We’ve converted an old basket ball court to an urban farm. We grow peas, greens, strawberries, carrots, squash, onion chives, and dinosaur kale. We can do all this because we grow our own soil. We’re changing our community one compost pile at a time.
Come check out the urban farm at the corner of Chicago Avenue and Hudson Street. Soon we’ll have hoop houses for year-round production and a farm stand every Saturday afternoon.
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