Will Allen name Time 100 most influential people in the world. Time Magazine, May 2010

"How is this man changing the way the world grows food?" Will Allen featured in Milwaukee Magazine, April 2010.

"Michelle Obama's Chilhood Obesity Launch", February 09 2010.

Will isn't out to change the ways of multinational food producers or foreign governments.  But he is spurring people to turn the weedy lot on the corner into a field of cucumbers and kale, and he's probably inspiring a few others to turn off the TV and make dinner for the family. Think globally; act locally."

-         Debra Landwehr Engle

Growing food, growing minds, growing communities: that’s the agenda of former basketball player Will Allen, whose organization, Growing Power, teaches inner-city children about the rewards, the challenges, and the science of farming.

- Michael Penn

Growing Power named as a democracy maker in Democracy's Edge:

See interviews with Will and Erika Allen in

Food Fight, a documentary by Chris Taylor, in association with November Films.

• "Will Allen Takes Growing Power to New Orleans, Forest City, and Mound Bayou to Set Up Regional Training Centers," Press release featured in NewsGuide.us.  November 7, 2008.

• "Food Waste Power: Composting and Local Food Merge at Urban Garden," by Rhodes Yepsen in BioCycle.  November, 2008.

• "Urban Farmer Sells Affordable Fruits and Veggies, Envisions Skyscraper Farms," by Courtney Chapman, et. al. for ABC News.  October 4, 2008.

• "An Urban Farmer is Rewarded for his Dream," by Barbara Minor in the New York Times.com.  September 25, 2008. 

• "Urban Farmer Awarded Genius Grant," by Kara Spak in the Chicago Sun Times.  September 23, 2008.

• "Urban Farmer's Work Honored," by Lee Berquest in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.  September 23, 2008.

• "Urban Farmer Will Allen Receives MacArthur Genius Award," in the African American Environmentalist Association.  September 23, 2008.

• "A Growing Movement: Urban Farming in Chicago," by Adam Doster in Progress Illinois.  September 9, 2008.

• "Beyond the Backyard Garden: Urban Agriculture in Milwaukee," by Dave Steele in The Next American City.  June 10, 2008.

• "Power to the People," by Kevin Frisch in Better Homes and Garden Magazine.  Summer 2008.

• "Urban Power Plants," by Judy Jepson in Exclusively Yours.  April 2008.

• “Growing Power: Expanding Food Justice,” by Tram Nguyen in Colorlines.  January/February, 2008.

• "Drawn Together in Fellowship," by Cathy Jean Malorey in Chicagoland Gardening.  September/October 2007.  

• Fort Valley State University, College of Agriculture by B.K. Lilja.  September 20, 2007.  

• “Milwaukee man touts benefits of urban farms,” by James Carlson. 2007.

• "A Meeting of the Minds," by Lisa Kaiser in Newsfeature.  November 30, 2006.

• "Chicago Boasts its Growing Power," by Jacob Wheeler.  November 22, 2006.

• “Public will dig Grant Park veggie garden, group says,” by Andrew Hermann in the Chicago Sun Times.  April 13, 2005.  

• "Growing Power," by Rebecca Nelson in the Aquaponics Journal.  1st Quarter, 2004.

• “Rebuilding a sense of community,” by Felicia Thomas-Lynn in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.  June 30, 2002.  

•  “One man making a big difference,” by Maryalice Koehne.

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