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zuky:

That’s Will Allen, former ABA basketball player and current community gardening visionary whose Milwaukee-based company Growing Power is leading the charge in the urban farming movement. He’s here in Vancouver and I’m excited to be attending a community dialogue with him tonight on “supporting low income and small family farmers and bringing healthy, affordable food to urban areas”.
As I see things here in North America, since rural farming has been more or less irrevocably taken over by corporate agribusiness, urban farming might be the future of sustainable food security. As I see it, communities of color in particular have a stake in acquiring this knowledge and developing urban farming systems in order to gain food-autonomy, self-sufficiency, and self-determination.
I’ve been following Will Allen’s work with great interest for the past year, intrigued both by his approach to equitable and sustainable food systems, as well as his innovations in efficient food output using worms and tilapia. He made the Time 100 list last year and has certainly been an inspiration in my own small upstart community garden, which is less than a year old but thriving quite nicely. I’m looking forward to hearing what he has to say and applying what I learn.

That’s Will Allen, former ABA basketball player and current community gardening visionary whose Milwaukee-based company Growing Power is leading the charge in the urban farming movement. He’s here in Vancouver and I’m excited to be attending a community dialogue with him tonight on “supporting low income and small family farmers and bringing healthy, affordable food to urban areas”.

As I see things here in North America, since rural farming has been more or less irrevocably taken over by corporate agribusiness, urban farming might be the future of sustainable food security. As I see it, communities of color in particular have a stake in acquiring this knowledge and developing urban farming systems in order to gain food-autonomy, self-sufficiency, and self-determination.

I’ve been following Will Allen’s work with great interest for the past year, intrigued both by his approach to equitable and sustainable food systems, as well as his innovations in efficient food output using worms and tilapia. He made the Time 100 list last year and has certainly been an inspiration in my own small upstart community garden, which is less than a year old but thriving quite nicely. I’m looking forward to hearing what he has to say and applying what I learn.

(via nezua)