- Growing Power
Growing Power is an
urban agriculture organization headquartered inMilwaukee, Wisconsin . It runs the last functional farm within the Milwaukee city limits and also organizes activities inChicago . Growing Power aims for sustainable food production, as well as the growth of communities through the creation of local gardens.Its facilities include seven large
greenhouse s, a kitchen, indoor and outdoor training gardens, aquaculture system and a food distribution facility. Fish, worms, rabbits, bees, goats, chickens, and ducks are also raised there. Growing power conducts workshops and demonstrations inaquaculture ,aquaponics , vermiculture,horticulture , small or large-scale composting, soilreclamation ,food distribution ,beekeeping , andmarketing . It also runs numerous collaborative projects and training projects, including a partnership with the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee to train city youth in gardening.The farm grows a wide variety of fruit and vegetables, and also farms
tilapia through the use of aquaponics. Thousands of people tour the facilities every year.Growing Power was started by Will Allen, who bought the Milwaukee farm in 1982. Allen, a former professional basketball player, grew up on a farm in Maryland. He won a $500k 'Genius Fellowship' for this work on Sept. 22, 2008.
References
*cite news | first=Stefanie | last=Ramp | pages=15–17 | title=Growing Power is in Full Bloom | date=Sept. 22, 2005 | publisher=Shepherd Express | url=http://www.shepherd-express.com/9_22_05/cover.htm
*cite web | author=Wilcox, Lauren | year=2006 | title=Farming Moves to the Big City | format=HTML | work=World Ark | url=http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.1459287/ | accessdate=2006-05-20
*cite book | first=Debra | last=Engle | coauthors= | title=Grace from the Garden : Changing the World One Garden at a Time | publisher=Rodale Books | location= | year=2003 | editor= | id=ISBN 1-57954-685-4
*cite book | first=Frances | last=Lappe | coauthors= | title=Democracy's Edge : Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life | publisher=Jossey-Bass | location= | year=2005 | editor= | id=ISBN 0-7879-4311-8
*cite news | first=Crocker | last=Stephenson | pages= | title=Return to farming cultivated his natural instinct | date=July 8, 2005 | publisher=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | url=http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=339372
*cite news | first=Patricia | last=Cohen | pages= | title=25 Receive $500,000 ‘Genius’ Fellowships | date=Sept. 22, 2008 | publisher=The New York Times | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/arts/23fell.htmlExternal links
*http://www.growingpower.org/
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