The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities

by Will Allen

Book Overview

A pioneering urban farmer and MacArthur Genius Award-Winner points the way to building a new food system that can feed- and heal- communities. The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen had no intention of ever becoming a farmer himself. But after years in professional basketball and as an executive for Kentucky Fried Chicken and Procter & Gamble, he cashed in his retirement fund for a two-acre plot just outside Milwaukee's largest public housing project...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592407609
• ISBN13: 9781592407606
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Avery Publishing Group
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher