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Growing Power - Urban Farming in Milwaukee

I have had the pleasure of interacting with Will and his crew on a couple of occasions at the Urban Agriculture Conference sponsored by Bioneers and held at Fairview Gardens. Plus the work that Michael Abelman and Fairview Gardens is doing is well worth the trip to Santa Barbara.

The work he is doing is incredible and really contributes to the notion of empowering people in growing their own.

"An organic farm known as Growing Power and its owner, a former basketball player are on a mission. Over the past 15 years, Will Allen has developed what he calls an ecologically sound urban farm in Milwaukee, [in the Midwestern U.S. state] Wisconsin. In this story by Faiza Elmasry (voiced by Amy Katz), Allen also has sought to teach people ways to feed themselves."

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