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Growing Power is a nationwide nonprofit organization and land
trust supporting people from diverse backgrounds and the environments they live
in through the development of Community Food Systems. These systems
provide high-quality, safe, healthy, affordable food for all residents in the
community.
Growing Power develops Community Food Centers -
as a key component of Community Food Systems - through training, active
demonstration, outreach, and technical assistance. Community Food Centers are
local places where people learn sustainable practices to grow, process, market
and distribute food.
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Where There's a Will: Growing Power
And now, a story I've been eager to tell since I attended the
Family Farm conference last month, about a two-acre farm in urban Milwaukee.
Pictured above, tilapia at Growing Power.
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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 |
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Will Power
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. Story by Michael Penn. Photos by Martha Busse. |
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Growing Power named as a democracy maker in Democracy's Edge: |
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