Planting the seed for urban farming

Mrs. Green speaks with Will Allen, Farmer, Founder and CEO of Growing Power. Will is recognized as a preeminent practitioner of urban agriculture in America and throughout the world. He grew up on a small farm in Maryland, the second-youngest of six children of a sharecropper. His father had a strict rule about no sports until all farm chores were done. It served Will well as he went on to become a standout basketball player and the first African-American athlete at the University of Miami. Will has been an innovator in methods of composting, vermicomposting (using worms to refine and fertilize compost) and aquaponics (growing fish and food plants in a closed system). Growing Power is involved in more than 70 projects and outreach programs in Milwaukee, across the United States and throughout the world.

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