Food And The City: Urban Agriculture And The New Food Revolution - Plot & Excerpts
Yet, it was in the American Midwest where I met actual hands-on innovators and saw the most ambitious projects at the forefront of the urban-agriculture movement. Chicago is on track to being the home of the world's first vertical farm, growing food on a smaller footprint by layering indoor fish farming on one floor, pigs on another, and vegetables on another, and so on—a farm in a skyscraper, in a sense. The world's largest commercial urban farm is being planned in Detroit, Michigan. And though he'd probably be uncomfortable with the title, a sweatshirt-and-blue-jeans-clad, worm- and-soil-obsessed Milwaukeean, Will Allen, is undeniably the world's biggest urban-farming celebrity. WILL ALLEN, CEO OF GROWING POWER, INC. I first learned of Will Allen, founder and CEO of Growing Power, Inc., in a New York Times Magazine article titled “Street Farmer,” written by Elizabeth Royte in 2009.1 The fact that a New York-based magazine would spend six pages on an urban farmer from Milwaukee demonstrated Allen's fame in the urban-agriculture world, as well as his rising status in the mainstream.
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