Was talking with Sharon this morning about life in Wisconsin, and how Ryan is getting UW-Lax to start vermi-composting, and she brought up the name Will Allen. I did a little reading today, and found some interesting articles about him. Quick bio: he grew up on a farm, played basketball professionally, is back into farming, but urban farming, now. This NYT article on him is great, the money quote being: As Allen can’t help reminding us, with a mischievous smile, “Chicago has 77,000 vacant lots.” This fleshes him out more, and has a pic of him with Michelle Obama. Some midwestern press, which includes a trailer to FRESH, a movie about thinking about what we are eating. He is amazing in the videos, very charismatic.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Will Allen
Was talking with Sharon this morning about life in Wisconsin, and how Ryan is getting UW-Lax to start vermi-composting, and she brought up the name Will Allen. I did a little reading today, and found some interesting articles about him. Quick bio: he grew up on a farm, played basketball professionally, is back into farming, but urban farming, now. This NYT article on him is great, the money quote being: As Allen can’t help reminding us, with a mischievous smile, “Chicago has 77,000 vacant lots.” This fleshes him out more, and has a pic of him with Michelle Obama. Some midwestern press, which includes a trailer to FRESH, a movie about thinking about what we are eating. He is amazing in the videos, very charismatic.
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