Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Growing Power, started by former professional basketball player Will Allen, is a nonprofit organization and land trust that seeks to build sustainable and equitable food systems. Allen gave up basketball for a marketing job at Proctor & Gamble, but then left the corporate world in 1982 and bought "the last working farm in Milwaukee." After establishing the farm as a nonprofit, sustainable, equitable urban food source (currently producing 100,000 pounds of chemical-free vegetables per year), he merged it with Growing Power, a training center to reconnect people with the land. The organization teaches people from diverse backgrounds about community food …
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