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

Will Allen, author of the 2012 book The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities, co-written with Charles Wilson, is an important figure in the American urban farming movement. Born into a farming family, Allen spent much of his adolescence and early adulthood hoping to avoid the agricultural life; however, after a career in professional basketball and later in corporate sales and marketing, Allen finds himself farming full-time, with idealism in his heart and a need to feel soil on his hands as often as possible. Thanks to Allen, the negative connotations of growing one’s own food have been transformed into meaningful commentary about environmentalism and social justice, commentary which inspires the delivery of actual fresh food items to urban Americans.

Born and raised in Maryland in 1949, Allen attended segregated schools until high school and then became the first black basketball player at the University of Miami, Florida. He married at the age of 20, while still a college student, and he moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his young family after playing professional basketball in Belgium. In Milwaukee, while working a full-time corporate sales job and farming in his free time, Allen purchased the city’s last remaining farm, which took the form of three decrepit

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